TITLE: RE-MOULDED & RE -DIRECTED BY FAILURE!

Dear Gentle Reader,
How costly and painful some life lessons are and isn’t it just amazing how God is ready and willing to take us through them.

Moses was in ‘the backside of the desert’, says the King James Bible. The palace drop-out stood before the burning bush a broken man, haunted by his inadequacy.

With excuses! When God called him, this stammerer was packed with more ‘buts’. As he tried to stammer home his point, he even had the audacity to imply that his deficiencies were bigger than God. What a micro-challenge to the One who fashions mouths?

Yet it was Moses, the poor shephered in Midian, not the ‘other’ Moses, the headstrong royal, prince of Egypt who was on the brink of greatness and popularity.

Forty years earlier, fresh from his Egyptian education, strong in body, high in status and political pull, with celebrity status, he was keen to help God’s people. But heaven had no use for a budding superstar. Heaven was waiting for a lowly sheep-caretaker. His first personal attempt at victory had to gloriously fail to give way to God’s ways!

Viewed from the final side of the grave, everything tackled in one’s own strength fizzles and fails miserably. Only through God could Moses’- God ordered efforts in time bring success for all eternity.

Perhaps it took the full forty years for this realization to become an unshakeable conviction, but it was worth the wait. It became the secret of Moses’ strength, ridding him off the arrogant independence and pride that would otherwise have fouled and failed his service  and ministry. He became the meekest man on earth. This precious quality is adorned with powerful and eternal promises.

Sorry to say that God may have to walk you through some journeys of failure, to mould you to a precious vessel. To uproot some wrong attitudes and plant and nurture new ones. For many of us, it will take such losses to instill the truth that our own efforts, even when masqueraded as God’s, are still nothing but total failure!

That our education, money, strength, methods, wisdom, popularity and personal attempts aren’t the key to accomplishing godly tasks!

In His divine love, wisdom, power and perfection, the Almighty uses failure and desert seasons to refine us for His very purposes!

Please be aware that some failures and challenges you are going through now might have a higher course. Some tough moments you are going through now are meant to enable you discover your inadequacies, re- mould you, re- direct your path and allow you to follow God in obedience.

Did you say that this is the year of restoration, breakthrough, double portions, elevation and the like? Yes, God will use some tough moments, challenges and even failures to get you there. Be still, learn quickly and pick the life lessons quickly.

Thank you for reading
Blessed week.