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God wants to work through you. When you obey God, He will accomplish through you what He has purposed to do. When God does something through your life that only He can do, you will come to know Him more intimately. If you don't obey, you will miss out on some of the most exciting experiences of your life.

When God purposes to do something through you, the assignment is God-sized dimensions. This is because God wants to reveal Himself to you and those around you. If you can do the work in your own strength, people will not come to know God. However, if God works through you to do what only He can do, you and those around you will come to know Him.

You see, God requires of us to have a daily walk with Him that is building on a love relationship that is real, not just a head knowledge. This relationship will lead us slowly to a point in time and usually, many such points in time, that God will call you to work through you.

But during this time of nurturing this love relationship with Jesus Christ, we must learn of Him and be willing to be developed by Him for that purpose which only God will know what to do with us.

Moses was a normal everyday person like us. He was born under perilous times. He was very learned during his first 40 years in the palace of the Pharoah. But it was his second 40 years in the wilderness that God rounded his character through solitude and patience.

At the appointed time, God appeared to Moses calling him to a God-sized assignment - to lead the Israelites out of Eygpt. God knew that it was time after all of Moses learning, for 80 long years, that he would be ready. Ready for what? Ready to be used by God to face the Pharoah, to lead a few million people and animals through the wilderness, but more so, to show and teach the people to obey God.

But you know what Moses did, even after the burning bush experience, a real physical experience? Moses tried to get out of the assignment. He had so many excuses that he thought he was not suitable. How similar to us is he. Even with God speaking to him and inviting him personally that Moses was so fearful of that assignment.

Only in the act of obedience did Moses begin to experience the full nature of God. What he began to know about God grew out of his obedience to God, not in the physical meetings with God.

In Moses' life, we can see this pattern of God speaking, Moses obeying, and God accomplishing what He purposed to do. (Read Exodus 7:1-6; 8:16-19) It was only after Moses obeyed that he experienced God in a truly intimate and dynamic way.

When he stood between the Red Sea and the oncoming Eygptian army, God told Moses to hold his staff over the sea. Moses obeyed and God parted the sea and the people crossed on dry ground (Ex 14:1-25).

When the Israelites complained that they had no water to drink, God told Moses to strike a rock with his staff. Moses obeyed and God caused the water to flow from the rock (Ex 17:1-7).

When Jesus told the 70 disciples to go and preach the gospel, they came back bearing stories of awe that they could heal the sick and cast out demons. But the reality was that when they obeyed Jesus to preach, God worked through them to show the greatness and power of God. Jesus told them that their own salvation ought to bring more joy than the submission of the spirits (Lk 10:1-24).

The disciples were blessed by their obedience. What they experienced were much more than what the prophets and kings wanted to experience but did not. These disciples were truly blessed.