"I found my combine shirt from 17 years ago and it got me thinking...This is what they said about me then....Poor build. Skinny. Lacks great physical stature and strength. Lacks mobility and ability to avoid the rush. Lacks a really strong arm. Can't drive the ball downfield. Does not throw a really tight spiral. System-type player who can get exposed if forced to ad lib. Gets knocked down easily. As @edelman11 always reminds me... "You can prove em right or you can prove em wrong".
― Tom Brady
EXODUS 7-8
1Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. 2You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. 3But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt, 4he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites. 5And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.”
6Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded them. 7Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.(7:1-7)JOURNAL
I really don't know what I would do without the Bible. The stories have become life rafts in some of the darkest times of my life. Now with my boys, I am able to share with them and encourage them through the power of these ancient texts. Moses, like Joseph is one that I cherish. Unlike Joseph Moses was actually raised a prince of Egypt. There are actual historical records that record his skill and leadership in military engagements. Then he has a fall from grace after killing an Egyptian in defense of a Hebrew slave. He goes on the run and becomes a nomadic wandering shepherd for the next 40 years. To say that Moses was an unlikely hero is the understatement of all understatements.
Yet this is the miraculous nature of God. Some of his best work is done by the rejected, the losers, the outcasts. To really consider what happens with Moses is just so contrary to human logic...God calls Moses...the outcast, the shamed, the outlaw to rescue his people. Why? Because God confounds the wisdom of humanity with grace and love.
He gives hope to those that the world says aren't good enough. He works through the tongues of those the world says are filthy and shameful. He confounds the powerful with those that are weak and powerless. And that is the point...God will not be usurped by our judgements and our standards. He operates off a different script and one that we most often would never approve.
That is the beauty of scripture...because at some point in every human life...there will come a time when the world seems and is set against you. When that happens it can feel like a death sentence, it can seem that the end is inevitable. Yet that is the fertile soil that can spur a revolution and a comeback that helps us to rethink our own potential and embrace our own unique stories.
I really don't know what I would do without the Bible. The stories have become life rafts in some of the darkest times of my life. Now with my boys, I am able to share with them and encourage them through the power of these ancient texts. Moses, like Joseph is one that I cherish. Unlike Joseph Moses was actually raised a prince of Egypt. There are actual historical records that record his skill and leadership in military engagements. Then he has a fall from grace after killing an Egyptian in defense of a Hebrew slave. He goes on the run and becomes a nomadic wandering shepherd for the next 40 years. To say that Moses was an unlikely hero is the understatement of all understatements.
Yet this is the miraculous nature of God. Some of his best work is done by the rejected, the losers, the outcasts. To really consider what happens with Moses is just so contrary to human logic...God calls Moses...the outcast, the shamed, the outlaw to rescue his people. Why? Because God confounds the wisdom of humanity with grace and love.
That is the beauty of scripture...because at some point in every human life...there will come a time when the world seems and is set against you. When that happens it can feel like a death sentence, it can seem that the end is inevitable. Yet that is the fertile soil that can spur a revolution and a comeback that helps us to rethink our own potential and embrace our own unique stories.
33“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
JOHN 16:33
JOHN 16:33
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