thirsting soul.

We speak with Him directly. It wasn’t always this way…

Numbers 12:6-8

Listen to what I say:
If there is a prophet among you from the LORD,
I make Myself known to him in a vision,
I speak with him in a dream.

Not so with My servant Moses;
He is faithful in all My household.
I speak with him directly,
openly, and not in riddles, 

he sees the form of the LORD.

Hebrews 3:1-6
Therefore, holy brothers and companions in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession; He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was in all God’s household. For Jesus is considered worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder has more honor than the house. Now every house is built by someone, but the One who built everything is God. Moses was faithful as a servant of God’s household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future. But Christ was faithful as a Son over His household, whose household we are if we hold on to the courage and the confidence of our hope.

493 years ago, this past Sunday, Martin Luther hammered his 95 thesis on the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany. On Sunday I read Exodus 1-7, in which God calls a shepherd with a speech impediment to deliver His nation from slavery. 

These are good reminders of how God uses small, ill-equipped no-names to accomplish big, God-sized purposes. That’s what He does.

Heroes are good. Especially ones with inspiring stories like these. But you know what’s better than a no-name being used for great things? The great I AM humbling Himself for no-names: 

Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage. Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men. And when He had come as a man in His external form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross. For this reason God also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow— of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth— and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. -Philippians 2:5-11