[Faith-talk] FW: [masterslist] Sit Down

[Eric Calhoun]

Original Message: 
From: "Dean Masters" <dwmasters at earthlink.net>
To: "masters list" <masterslist at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [masterslist] Sit Down
Date: 
Tue, 17 May 2011 11:39:48 -0400

Sit Down!
by Charles R. Swindoll

Read
Exodus 2:11--15

Moses was a frightened and disillusioned fugitive running, escaping for
his 
very life. His vaunted education now meant nothing to him. His knowledge
of
hieroglyphics and Egyptian culture gave him no comfort. His military 
victories seemed hollow. Thanks to his rash act of violence, that same 
military wanted
to kill him. And with every step, he probably groaned within himself over

his untimely deed, saying things like, "Life is over. God can never,
never 
use
me. I'm absolutely finished."

Maybe that's where you are today as you read these words. This man Moses 
lived thousands of years ago, but the situation I've just described may
seem 
as
contemporary to you as today's stale bread in your kitchen. You say,
"I've 
worked so hard. Tried so many things. Pushed myself so relentlessly. But 
it's
gotten me nowhere. Nothing has worked for me. It's curtains."

Believe it or not, you may be closer than ever in your life to a
spiritual 
breakthrough. You won't quit running in the flesh until you get to the 
endless,
waterless sand dunes. When you finally get there, when you finally
stumble 
to a stop in the pitiful shade of some sun-scorched rock, you will be
saying
to yourself, "Will God ever, ever use me?" And there you'll sit.

When the self-life finally sits down, the well of a new life lies near.
When 
will we ever learn that? Highly qualified, capable people prefer to be on

the
move; sitting down goes against the grain. Yet when that broken 
forty-year-old named Moses finally slumped to the ground at the end of a 
self-driven life,
fresh, cool drinking water was available right next to him.

Sit down. That's right, my friend, sit down!

You have run far enough. You have pushed long enough. You have fought, 
demanded, and manipulated your way for too many years. God has finally 
grabbed your
attention. He is saying, "Quit! Stop! Let Me handle it! Sit there on the
hot 
sands of the desert where you have brought yourself. Look at what lies
next
to you. It is a well, full of fresh water." Soon it will be God's delight
to 
bring up the bucket and refresh your soul. Sit still. Stay there. Be
quiet.
Listen.


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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Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand in
the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our
Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and
authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. Jude 1:24-25

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