Year 4, Day 55: Exodus 6

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Discipleship Focus: Character, D2

• Character: Having the interior life that is necessary to support the work that God sets before a person.  It is hearing from God and obeying.  It is doing the right thing when nobody is looking.

Exodus 6 is a great chapter with respect to examining how it is that God builds character.  Before we go there, let’s stop for a moment and acknowledge that we all need help building character.  We all do the wrong thing from time to time.  We all have difficulties making the right decisions from time to time.  We all make mistakes, and sometimes it is easy to fall into the pit of despair over our mistakes.

We’ve been watching Moses fall into the pit of despair over the last few days.  We’ve seen him begin to doubt himself.  We’ve heard him fall into the trap of making excuses as to why he will just fail.  Yes, Moses is headed into the pit of despair regarding his own character.

However, look at God’s response.  Rather than patch up Moses’ character and convince Moses how great Moses is, God turns Moses to focus on God’s character.  God turns Moses towards God in order to help build Moses’ character.  We’ll never be perfect.  So long as I lean upon my own understanding I’ll always fall at some point.  True character comes from turning and focusing on the fact that God is doing the new thing.  God is the power behind our life.

Our character is not made by perfecting our flawed character.  Our character is made by releasing our flawed character, turning to God, and embracing His character instead.  That’s how God moves in Moses in Exodus 6.

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