Waist Deep 2018 - January 21

Exodus 33: 13 “If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you.” (NIV)

God has unlimited ways to get our attention and to transform us.*

The words of this verse are spoken by Moses, the man who tried to get out of the duty to which God had called him by pointing out how useless and unskilled he was; the same Moses about whom it was said, just two verses earlier, that God spoke to him as to a friend. Here he seems to be negotiating with God: “Okay, you say you are pleased with me – so show me what you want me to do.”

It is an interesting concept - that God could be pleased with me before I have learned his ways. We think that we have to know how to be a Christian before we can become one, but this verse indicates that God teaches us as we go. And as we learn, we continue to find favor with him.

“Just as I am” is exactly the way God accepts us but he does not expect us to stay that way.

Becoming whole is a process, not an event.*