Favour and Abilities

Day 4 - 9 August
Moses and the Law
Exodus 1-5, 12-14, and 20

Lately, I've experienced the abundant blessings of God through the love showered unreservedly by my family and loved ones and seemingly miraculous circumstances. I have been favoured.

The Christian perspective does not subscribe to pure luck and simply being at the right place at the right time. And today's passage reinforces that God's blessings are intentional and plentiful.

When Moses was placed in the reed basket to drift down the Nile, what are the odds that in the backdrop of Hebrew oppression, the Pharaoh's daughter would first of all spot Moses and secondly take kindly to him?

However, I am also reminded to consider when doing through the valley of the shadow of death (Psalm 23: 4), we should not think if it as the absence of God or his blessings.

God's blessings also comes in the form of the skills and competences we have. Rather than be haughty about what is easily mistaken to be innate strengths, we are to be reminded that God is the designer and creator of our complex faculties which have been fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139: 4)

Exodus 4: 11 - 12
The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord?  Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”