Notes of Faith December 18, 2025
Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife! Thanks for sharing the years God is giving us…together!
How Can I...?
But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
Exodus 3:11
When we are given a difficult task, there is a fine line between “Glad to do it!” and “Do I really have to?” But one thing can make the difference: if the person giving the instruction says he will go with us.
It is human nature for us to resist a difficult task, especially one we have never done before. That was true in several instances in Scripture when God commissioned someone with a task. For example, when God directed Moses to go to Egypt to free the Hebrew slaves from bondage, Moses resisted the task. But God said to him, “I will certainly be with you” (Exodus 3:12). The same thing happened when God chose Gideon to defend Israel from the Midianites: “O my Lord, how can I save Israel?” And God’s answer to Gideon was the same as His answer to Moses: “Surely I will be with you” (Judges 6:14-16).
God asks us to do challenging things for Him every day: loving, forgiving, serving, encouraging, and more. Be assured that God is with you to make all things possible.
[God’s] presence never diminishes. Our awareness of His presence may falter, but the reality of His presence never changes.
Max Lucado
When Pastor Charles Covington’s had a stroke on Father’s day of 1999, it was assumed by many in the congregation that I was ready, willing and able to fill his shoes in the pulpit. Nothing was further from the truth…I had given few sermons to that point and lacked the skill of putting together Scriptural truth and application for every follower of Jesus. I told God that I did not want the job…for six months, while doing the job, I kept saying, “I don’t belong in this job. Use someone else.” But God…persisted in His call on my life, and after I repented, accepted the call, and understood the concept above, that He would be with me, to help me in every way, be the pastor and shepherd of His flock that He desired me to be.
I still serve my Lord and Savior, still pastor and shepherd over some of the same flock and some new arrivals to the flock. I know that He is with me always! I am eager to answer His every call, even in areas where I am weak and inexperienced, because I know that He will provide all that I need to be of service for His glory!
Listen for the call of God on your life and respond in faith and trust. You will be blessed beyond all you could imagine!
Pastor Dale