[Faith-talk] FW: [masterslist] Going It Alone

[Eric Calhoun]

Original Message: 
From: "Dean Masters" <dwmasters at earthlink.net>
To: "masters list" <masterslist at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [masterslist] Going It Alone
Date: 
Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10:58:58 -0400

Going It Alone
by Charles R. Swindoll

Read
Exodus 4:11--17

Do you know what God did? He accommodated Moses' desire. But the
compromise 
was less than the best; brother Aaron proved to be an albatross around
his 
neck.
It was Aaron who got impatient while Moses was on the mountain and
created a 
golden calf for the people to worship. It was he who told the people,
"This
is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt" (Exodus

32:4).

As you read these words, you may sense God's nudge to step out on faith
in a 
plan that seems risky at best. You don't have all the answers. You don't 
know
the hows and whys and wherefores of what God has in mind. From a human
point 
of view, the prospects look rather bleak. Do you know what our tendency
is?
It's to take someone with us. Somehow, that keeps us from having to put
our 
full trust in the Lord's plan; we can lean on that gifted friend or 
companion
we've brought along with us.

How many men have gone into a business partnership and lived to regret
the 
day they chose that partner? How many women have engaged in pursuits with
a 
companion
they wish they had never asked to join them? God's call is a serious, 
individual matter. While I believe with all my heart in accountability, 
God's call
does not lend itself to the buddy system or to group excursions. And
before 
you bring any other individual along with you to fulfill that call, or 
before
you join a team, you must make absolutely certain in your heart that each

one has the same vision beating in his or her heart that you do.

If not, then take this advice, my friend: Go it alone. Follow God's voice

without distraction.

God was finally willing to say to Moses, "All right, all right, have it
your 
way. I'll send Aaron, too, but it isn't My best, Moses. The day will come

when
you will wish you'd followed My call on your own. You don't really need 
Aaron; all you need is Me."

Excerpted from Charles R. Swindoll,
Great Days with the Great Lives
(Nashville: W Publishing Group, 2005). Copyright © 2005 by Charles R. 
Swindoll, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.


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