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Be a chain-link
'"I am ... the God of Abraham ... Isaac, and ... Jacob"...' Exodus 3:6
Did you ever make a paper chain for a party? You'd painstakingly cut out all the bits of paper, glue them all together, then hang it up. If you hung each loop individually, it wouldn't look anywhere near as impressive. The loops all needed each other for the chain to work. If just one of them broke, or wasn't stuck properly; the whole chain would fall down, it wouldn't be complete any more.
What's that got to do with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Simple. God's plan for your life is part of a much bigger plan, involving many other people. He might start something through you; but that doesn't mean you'll get to see the end of it always.
Think of it like you being at one end of the chain, and you affect someone next to you in the chain, then they affect someone else and it goes on. It'd be easy to say 'Yeah, but if I'm not going to see the results, I don't wanna know' wouldn't it? But think back to the paper chain - if you're the loop that breaks, the whole chain falls down. Don't be the one who makes it fall.
Moses had to learn that he was part of a chain going back years and years and years. Paul got it too - check out 1 Corinthians 3:7-8. It's amazing what God can do through you, when you recognise that you're part of a bigger picture.
written by Bob Gass
'"I am ... the God of Abraham ... Isaac, and ... Jacob"...' Exodus 3:6
Did you ever make a paper chain for a party? You'd painstakingly cut out all the bits of paper, glue them all together, then hang it up. If you hung each loop individually, it wouldn't look anywhere near as impressive. The loops all needed each other for the chain to work. If just one of them broke, or wasn't stuck properly; the whole chain would fall down, it wouldn't be complete any more.
What's that got to do with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Simple. God's plan for your life is part of a much bigger plan, involving many other people. He might start something through you; but that doesn't mean you'll get to see the end of it always.
Think of it like you being at one end of the chain, and you affect someone next to you in the chain, then they affect someone else and it goes on. It'd be easy to say 'Yeah, but if I'm not going to see the results, I don't wanna know' wouldn't it? But think back to the paper chain - if you're the loop that breaks, the whole chain falls down. Don't be the one who makes it fall.
Moses had to learn that he was part of a chain going back years and years and years. Paul got it too - check out 1 Corinthians 3:7-8. It's amazing what God can do through you, when you recognise that you're part of a bigger picture.
written by Bob Gass
