Paralyzed By Fear
Sometimes in ministry I feel this same way. That even though I want to be a risk taker and a rebel against the things that don't glorify God I become paralyzed by fear. Instead of being the intermediary, I so long for someone else to be it. I wonder if Moses really wanted to be or if he was the one with the least fear and went ahead and did, or if he was scared to death, but he knew that God was in control? This passage gives us the difference in healthy and unhealthy fear. Later in the text in vs.24-29 we hear the people cry out to Moses that if they hear the living God again surely they will die. God responds with the hope and wish that they would always have this kind of fear and obedience towards him. Today I pray that I would always have the healthy fear of the Lord, but now a fear that paralyzes me from doing exactly what he has called me and his Kingdom to.
