Exodus 2: 11 – 15, 3: 7 – 12
Niagara Falls is one of the most spectacular sights I have ever seen. The roar of 6 million cubic feet of water each minute makes it the most powerful waterfall in North America. Few people, however, know that more than 50 percent of the river’s water is diverted before it reaches those falls via four huge tunnels. This water passes through hydroelectric turbines that supply power to nearby areas in the US and Canada before returning to the river, well past the Falls.
As a member of the Keepers Of Odd Knowledge Society, I am fascinated to hear things like that, and having seen the falls, I can’t imagine the power that would be displayed if that other 50% were to go over the falls in front of my eyes.
Okay, can we talk here? Don’t you think that we would love to have others think of our lives as powerful, loud, and spectacular like Niagara seems to be?
To be sure, that in nature, that kind of power on display is awesome, but in human terms, we know that power like that simply corrupts.
Power needs to be tempered to be affective. Purpose comes from Niagara when it is diverted to generate electricity, and Moses needed to be humbled before he could be affective for God’s purpose. In chapter 2 of Exodus, we see that Moses is a prince with great power until he commits murder and has to run for his life, to become a pauper in the desert. Finally, there, God could use him.
Exodus 3:
10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."
11 But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"
12 And God said, "I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain."
No matter how powerful we are, or become, whether physically, financially, or even politically, we will spin out of control and burnout in a most spectacular fashion if we don’t rely on the greater strength of God.
Nothing is more powerful than strength under God’s control.
Niagara Falls is one of the most spectacular sights I have ever seen. The roar of 6 million cubic feet of water each minute makes it the most powerful waterfall in North America. Few people, however, know that more than 50 percent of the river’s water is diverted before it reaches those falls via four huge tunnels. This water passes through hydroelectric turbines that supply power to nearby areas in the US and Canada before returning to the river, well past the Falls.
As a member of the Keepers Of Odd Knowledge Society, I am fascinated to hear things like that, and having seen the falls, I can’t imagine the power that would be displayed if that other 50% were to go over the falls in front of my eyes.
Okay, can we talk here? Don’t you think that we would love to have others think of our lives as powerful, loud, and spectacular like Niagara seems to be?
To be sure, that in nature, that kind of power on display is awesome, but in human terms, we know that power like that simply corrupts.
Power needs to be tempered to be affective. Purpose comes from Niagara when it is diverted to generate electricity, and Moses needed to be humbled before he could be affective for God’s purpose. In chapter 2 of Exodus, we see that Moses is a prince with great power until he commits murder and has to run for his life, to become a pauper in the desert. Finally, there, God could use him.
Exodus 3:
10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."
11 But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"
12 And God said, "I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain."
No matter how powerful we are, or become, whether physically, financially, or even politically, we will spin out of control and burnout in a most spectacular fashion if we don’t rely on the greater strength of God.
Nothing is more powerful than strength under God’s control.
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