It takes a guy like Moses to tell people who are standing in the middle of a desert with no food stores, no national economy, and not much of a standing army that their proposed invasion of the Promised Land wouldn’t be too hard.
Here. You read it.
Pretty good stuff, no?
Well, some would not agree. In fact, there are a few who would point out that Moses was oversimplifying it. But I disagree. Moses is careful to point out that there would be challenges.
But none would be too hard. “This isn’t beyond you,” he says. “You won’t need a sailor to go get it across an ocean.”
There are dozens of moments in each of our lives in which we have decided that a goal or task is beyond us. And we give up; often before we even make the attempt. G.K. Chesterton said, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found difficult. It has been found difficult and left untried.”
And so, masses decide not to read their Bibles. People stay away from Sunday school because they don’t understand. And the mission fields are ripe, but untended because there are thousands who have decided that they couldn’t possibly accomplish such a task.
Yes, there are some things that a person can’t do. There are some things that one person can do that no other person in the world could accomplish.
But that’s not the point here.
The point is, Moses spoke to the people of God and told them that they could accomplish the tasks that their God had set before them.
So don’t pray the impossible prayer. Don’t seek the impossible task. Look for God’s task, and don’t be intimiddated by the size of it. Don’t back down because of the scope of it. Why?
Because it won’t be too hard. Not with God’s help.
A father and son went camping (tell me when you get this memorized). The son was tasked with clearing the campsite of sticks, brush and stones. He had accomplished this task for the most part, except for a large stone in the center of the site that would not budge. He pushed. He pulled. He pried. He kicked. He yelled.
Nothing. It was too heavy; the task was too hard.
The father asked the son, “Have you tried everything?”
“I did,” came the reply.
“No, son,” he said. “You didn’t use all the tools at your disposal, because you haven’t asked me for help yet.”
Together they moved it.
There is no task to hard. Your Father in Heaven loves you too much to give you a task that is too large to accomplish–particularly if you ask for His help.
So take up your discipleship. Find your challenge. Read your Bible.
It is not too hard.
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