The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Exodux 33:12-16, “Then Moses said to the LORD, ‘See, You say to me, “Bring up
this people!” But You Yourself have not let me know whom You will send with me. Moreover, You have said, “I have known you by name, and you have also found favor in My sight.”
13 “Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people.”
14 And He said, ‘My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.’
15 Then he said to Him, ‘If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up
from here.
16 ‘For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people?
Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from
all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?’”

There are a number of ways a person can be known. One can be known by the
company he keeps. One can be known by the language he uses. It’s not even
whether our physical features favor those who have given us birth; it’s a matter of
whether our behavior reveals that we have absorbed those with whom we are
keeping company.

Moses originally doubted whether he was capable of accomplishing what the LORD
intended for him to do. Ultimately, he resigned himself and the task to the LORD.
He had to come to the place where he recognized that it was not whether he could
accomplish the LORD’s task, but whether the LORD could accomplish it with him
in the way.

Don’t we resemble Moses more than we admit? When the LORD gives us a task,
Instead of just trusting Him and forgeing ahead, we take a long a look at all of the
difficulties and want to resign altogether. “Send somebody else,” we say. “I’m not
up to Your task. I don’t know enough Bible. I get tounge-tied and don’t know what
to say.

I had a friend in Australia — a one-time German soldier, yes, an unwilling Nazi –
who came to know Christ through an elderly woman who stu..t..ter…ed. Don’t tell
the LORD His business. He knows who’s who and what’s what. Just trust Him to
use you as He wants. In the end, you will thank and praise Him for what He has
done! God bless you –abundantly!

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
Springdale, Arkansas 72764
United States of America

“We never know that Christ is all we need until He becomes all that we have.” – Corrie ten Boom