The Power We Don't Know We Have

I'm reading through Exodus. Pretty amazing stuff. Exodus 32 is one of my favorite books of the Bible. It shifts a lot of the assumptions we have about God's character. I'll give you the short version. While Moses is up on the mountain getting the 10 commandments from God, his brother, Aaron, leads the Hebrews to make golden calfs to bow down and worship. God catches wind of this (He kind of sees everything), and tells Moses that He's fed up with it, and He's going to wipe those people out and basically start over with him.


In Exodus 32:11-14, Moses replies to God:

11 But Moses asked the Lord his God to show favor to the people. "Lord," he said, "why should your anger burn against your people? You used your great power and mighty hand to bring them out of Egypt. 12 Why should the Egyptians say, 'He brought them out to hurt them. He wanted to kill them in the mountains. He wanted to wipe them off the face of the earth'? Turn away from your burning
anger. Please take pity on your people. Don't destroy them! 13 "Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel. You made a promise. You took an oath in your name. You said, 'I will make your children after you as many as the stars in the sky. I will give them all of this land I promised them. It will belong to them forever.' "14 Then the Lord took pity on his people. He didn't destroy them as he had said he would.

Moses changed God's mind. Does that blow your mind? It does mind. God loves us, wants to be in a relationship with us and listens to us. God's mind can be changed when we are faithful and we plead our case before him out of righteous motives. God wants to work good for us and in us and through us. God hears us. Sometimes we can start thinking that we don't matter. But we matter immensely. We are game-changers. Be a Moses. Be a game-changer. Our Father is listening to the cries of His people.