God Can Work Through Anyone

Many of us know the story of Moses and how he led the people of Israel out from a land of oppression and away from a great oppressor, Pharaoh.

If you don’t know the story, pick up a copy of the Bible and read the first 15 chapters of Exodus. It’s a wonderful story for people who think God cannot work through them.

Moses’ thoughts of himself and how God could use him befuddled him. Moses considered himself as a person without a lot of brains. Moses recognized that he was not a great orator. Today we would say that Moses had an issue of low self-esteem.

There are probably a lot of people who have issues with low self-esteem, just like Moses. They cannot imagine themselves being of value to God in making a change to the world for the Lord. However, if you read the story of Moses, you realize that one person with low self-esteem can make a huge difference in the lives of others.

Pharaoh was powerful and wealthy. He assumed, incorrectly, that his power and wealth would allow him to treat people any way he pleased. He was wrong. When God is involved, you always lose when you mistreat people in the short-term or long-term. What or who appears to be a mere nuisance to a powerful and wealthy person, business, organization, or institution could very easily become their worst nightmare and quite possibly the source of their demise. God proved this through Moses to Pharaoh.

Notice, I said that God proved this, not Moses. Moses was simply the messenger of God. Moses didn’t do anything on his own. It was God working through Moses, not Moses, who brought down the oppressors. This is a huge lesson for people who claim to be doing God’s work. God is the doer. The person is the vessel through which God does the work.

We live in a world today where we think a specific person of our choosing, not God’s choosing, can make a difference in our lives and in the world. Wrong. There is no human-being on this planet called Earth that can do anything great for anyone outside the will of God.

I’m between five and six decades old. I have seen people mistreated in the work-place many times over the years and they remain silent because they are afraid of the wealthy, the powerful, and the well-spoken. They prayed and prayed for God to make their situation and the situation of others better, yet they remained silent and inactive. They did not allow God to work through them to do His will. The result: people continued to suffer.

We live in a day and time when people are as oppressed and mistreated by modern day pharaohs, who think they can get away with treating God’s children, his valuable creations, any sort of way they please. My prayer is that as a child of God you will cry out to the Lord about the suffering you and others may be experiencing. Be sincere, not selfish. Ask God to bring someone, of His choosing, to the forefront and work through that person to bring about changes in a workplace, an organization, or an institution. It may or may not be you; nevertheless, turn it over to God in prayer.

If God doesn’t choose you, but you see someone He has chosen, pray for that person that they will remain open to God working through them for the sake of many.

Above all, remember, the end of the story—God and his children won; Pharaoh and his “army” lost. If we are open to God, this story can be repeated time and time again to God’s glory.