{"id":5502,"date":"2011-10-13T05:49:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T13:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=5502"},"modified":"2011-10-13T06:33:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:33:20","slug":"individual-discouragement-and-personal-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=5502","title":{"rendered":"Individual Discouragement and Personal Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2-ytcvXP8BI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>. . . when Moses was grown . . . he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens \u2014Exodus 2:11<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Moses saw the oppression of his people and felt certain that he was the one to deliver them, and in the righteous indignation of his own spirit he started to right their wrongs. After he launched his first strike for God and for what was right, God allowed Moses to be driven into empty discouragement, sending him into the desert to feed sheep for forty years. At the end of that time, God appeared to Moses and said to him, \u201d \u2019. . . bring My people . . . out of Egypt.\u2019 But Moses said to God, \u2019Who am I that I should go . . . ?\u2019 \u201d (Exodus 3:10-11). In the beginning Moses had realized that he was the one to deliver the people, but he had to be trained and disciplined by God first. He was right in his individual perspective, but he was not the person for the work until he had learned true fellowship and oneness with God.<br \/>\nWe may have the vision of God and a very clear understanding of what God wants, and yet when we start to do it, there comes to us something equivalent to Moses\u2019 forty years in the wilderness. It\u2019s as if God had ignored the entire thing, and when we are thoroughly discouraged, God comes back and revives His call to us. And then we begin to tremble and say, \u201cWho am I that I should go . . . ?\u201d We must learn that God\u2019s great stride is summed up in these words\u2014 \u201cI AM WHO I AM . . . has sent me to you\u201d (Exodus 3:14). We must also learn that our individual effort for God shows nothing but disrespect for Him\u2014 our individuality is to be rendered radiant through a personal relationship with God, so that He may be \u201cwell pleased\u201d (Matthew 3:17). We are focused on the right individual perspective of things; we have the vision and can say, \u201cI know this is what God wants me to do.\u201d But we have not yet learned to get into God\u2019s stride. If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.<\/p>\n<p>10 13 11 Journal DJR<br \/>\nGood Morning Lord,<br \/>\nI relate to Moses, seeing a wrong and deciding (or probably assuming \u2026 or just not thinking at all\u2026) that he was the one to right the wrong and rushing out in his own power to correct the injustice.   I\u2019ve done that.  And it worked about as well as it did for Moses.   But now that I\u2019ve been on some broken roads and deserts \u2026 I\u2019m slower to jump on things.   Currently I\u2019m in a situation and find myself tempted to \u201cpick up a sword\u201d   So far I\u2019ve remembered who I am, and who you are and what you\u2019ve said, and how you\u2019ve always worked things out in the past.    Jer 29:11 &amp; Rom 8:28 are my anchors<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>11 For I know the plans I have for you,\u201d declares the LORD, \u201cplans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> 28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course I\u2019ve known these for many years, but after surviving some deserts they mean more to me,  give me a different perspective.   They are the filter thru which other thoughts and input must pass and be evaluated.<br \/>\nIt is tempting when those around me say, \u201cyou should sue\u2026.\u201d   but so far, I\u2019ve chosen to stay curious about what you are going to do and expectant that it will be good.   I\u2019m even starting to think that it will be very good \u2026 better even than I could have thought \u2026 Like Joseph becoming prime minister of Egypt and saving all the people.   ?<\/p>\n<p><em>I am certainly capable of blessing my people and turning curses to blessings.   And I delight to do those things. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><br \/>\nI like to see you work and I like to try to figure out how and why you do what you do and what you are going to do next.   That\u2019s probably not too good?<br \/>\n<em>Correct.   You will ruin it for yourself if you get in the way with your ways and your thinking, planning, managing, and the ways of the world.   They are so different than my ways,  \u2026 they just wont work together.  So if you are going to manage a crisis, I\u2019ll step aside \u2026 and let you.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nBeen there, done that.   I like it better staying on the balcony and watching you do things.   It\u2019s so cool that they so often turn out great for me.   Sometimes there is something for me to do.  I have a hundred ideas.   99 are  junk.   One is from you.   How do I know?<br \/>\n<em>Dont fret.  Dont waste a lot of time on this question.  You\u2019ve recently let 99 ideas go by.   Those one or two that you acted on \u2026 how did you know?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em>I waited until it became clear.  So clear that other people were telling me.  Then when I made some moves, I tried  to hold my position in an open palm and keep remembering those verses.  And WWJD.<br \/>\n<em>Good,  just keep doing that.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . when Moses was grown . . . he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens \u2014Exodus 2:11 Moses saw the oppression of his people and felt certain that he was the one to deliver them, and in the righteous indignation of his own spirit he started to right their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5507,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}