Moses, continued.

So, Moses ... the urgency of that last post has faded somewhat, but I think I can follow up that line of thought.

It's easy to accept facts about God or do what he tells us to, when it doesn't require any real personal investment. I.e., it was easy for Moses to take off his shoes, but not so easy to agree to go back to Egypt. In the same way, it's easy for me to love what I know about God. It's easy for me to do some things ... like I can read my Bible, I can pray. That stuff is not too hard. But it seems that so often in the Bible, when God was going to do something extraordinary, he asked for an extraordinary commitment from his human instrument(s). Now I'm sounding like a preacher, but oh well ... I have to say it. This is when it gets tough. I like my nice, comfortable, safe, normal life. But there come these times when God wants to disrupt it. He wants to put me in situations I'm not competent to handle, and I've got to be willing to take it on, letting him act through me. The only other choice is to stay and enjoy my nice, comfortable, safe life and never do anything that means something.

"Do not be afraid." -- Derek Webb, New Law; and God, a bunch of times.