Delegation

And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. (Exodus 7:1)

It amazes me what God can do with someone totally sold out to Him

Imagine God making Moses a god!

Does it surprise us that Moses was still the meekest person who ever lived?

Can you imagine God delegating some of Himself to you?

How would it feel? How would you behave?

We are unable to handle little gifts and talents as we feel they make us superhuman.

In fact, the term diva, star and such other words confer on us that extra something that makes us feel that we are not like other men.

A pastor transforms into a CEO and a few other major titles when he grows a church into a mega church, whatever that means.

Then he must move to the leafy suburbs and drive a car commensurate with his status even when his church is in the slums and some in his congregation can barely afford food.

Now imagine that Moses was given the title god, and that by God Himself!

And he was able to handle that.

Imagine the millions in Egypt and Israel hang at his every word! Imagine Israel repented to God for speaking against him!

Yet he was still submitted to God. Yet he was submitted to the people he served.

Philippians 2 speaks about Christ humbling Himself. And I believe in a small way it can also describe Moses.

Why do I say this?

We love defending our humanness and its frailties when it suits us.

And we love attaching ourself to divinity when we need the power.

But you see power from the divine is not a preposition we pick when we need.

God releases His power to us so that we can partake and walk in His nature.

That is what makes many miracles deceptions as they release God’s power without manifesting His nature. I perform miracles but am unable to escape the snare of pornography. I can prophesy but am unable to stop lying to exaggerate my exploits. I raise the dead but can’t keep my trouser zipped in the presence of a woman.

But Moses was not like that.

He was made a god and took God’s nature, from compassion to a repugnance for sin.

Remember him pleading with God to kill him to forgive Israel? Remember him pleading for mercy for the people who had belittled his position when they were judged?

In short God delegated some of Himself to Moses and Moses didn’t choose what suited him. He took the whole package.

We love speaking in God’s name and using His power. But we have a problem when it comes to us having His nature running our lives.

We are like those women who will apply layers of paint to hide the spots and creases that show what they are like.

It is taking the cosmetic industry to the spiritual.

But God seeks to make us like Moses. He wants His nature to flow through us, not only His power.

Do you know the easiest demonstration of meekness?

It is a yoke of oxen (or buffalo or elephants for those who use them) plowing.

The power is immense. But it is subject to the one guiding them.

Isn’t that what we see with Moses?

Imagine someone who can move millions at will! Imagine someone who can move God!

Yet he could listen to miserable orphans (Zelophehad’s daughters).

Imagine someone who could stay for eighty days (a very short break between them) without eating and drinking anything! Imagine someone whose face glows with God’s glory that he has to veil it! Imagine someone God spoke to face to face!

Yet he could listen to his father-in-law who was not even from Israel.

Yet we see him hurrying Aaron to offer a sacrifice because judgment had been activated by the congregation’s defiance of him.

Thus saith The Lord should not be just a power statement. It should be indicative of a delegated position.

Look at Elijah.

It won’t rain until I say so appears very arrogant until we see him declaring that the rains have come.

I have done all this as You told me.

Remember that even at his lowest point he had to have God’s word?

We love those offices and power positions without seeking to be like the One who has given them to us.

God is in the business of delegating. But there is a stark disconnect between the people who love those positions as they do not desire the nature of the One delegating them.

And we see that most clearly with Saul the king.

Remember seeking the respect of his troops when God rejects him, the same troops that according to him caused him to disobey God’s order?

Yet isn’t that how many of us handle our delegation, especially after a long time of serving people?

How many ministers left everything for ministry yet have refused to move when God says so? How many have refused to hand over to another generation because they cannot afford to leave those positions, positions that were nowhere in their mind when God was calling them?

How many ministers have become spiritual brokers, selling everything from books to sermons to motivational speeches yet in their initial years cared nothing for mammon?

How many cook stories to get an extra car or a house yet in their first days were comfortably walking when they could not afford bus fare to get to the places they needed to minister to?

How many have removed offense from their sermons to please their troops like Saul?

In closing, do you realise that God delegated so much to Moses that He started calling Israel Moses’ people that he had led from Egypt?

Just imagine that!