It was an interesting few months: from turning sticks to snakes, to total darkness, to hail storms, to turning the Nile to blood, and even the parting of the Red Sea... God's miracles had been on fleek, and Moses had looked cool through it all.
But now, here they stood: a million people? Maybe more? Maybe less? I really don't know, I'm a computer engineer, not a statistician 😏.
However many they were, they stood there without a tour guide... Without their shepherd.
Oh, you never heard? Moses said "adios" and left. He was mumbling something about having done enough and God would get them to their promised land somehow.
I'm sure a few of them would make it tho... I mean, it's impractical for all the 1 million or so people to die... Or? I mean, fine, they don't know the way, but if they all faced different directions and started walking, someone is bound to make it... provided the heat and wild animals don't kill them. Ok, this is messed up... Where's Moses? 😒
Ok, ok, ok, we all know that's not how the story goes. But what if Moses left?🤔 Would we be expecting to see an Israel today? Most likely answer: nah... Not unless God gave them another shepherd.
But I see this scenario every time, except it looks more like this:
Raise, your hand, rise to your feet, come to the front, repeat this prayer after me: "Dear Lord Jesus, I know I'm a sinner, forgive me... etc.... Amen"
Then we leave them.
We forget, that we just took them out of Egypt! Right into the wilderness! The promised land is still forty days or forty years away, depending on the state of their hearts. Nyame nipa, please, why abandon God's children in the desert?
Matthew 28:19-20, the Great Commission, is a call to make disciples, not converts. It's a call to be a shepherd, not just to evangelise and leave growth to chance.
In this Exodus, you are Moses... stick with the flock!
#Discipleship
✌🏾😎KayO
