Ten More Minutes on Moses & Confidence

We reflect on Moses in Exodus and trace how real confidence grows when we stop fixating on ourselves and start trusting God’s presence. We challenge the way insecurity masquerades as humility and land on a simple practice: remember what God has done and tell your story. 
• the difference between humility and self-doubt 
• why God answers with presence instead of ego boosts 
• confidence rooted in God’s image on our lives 
• Moses versus Israel in Exodus 14 and misplaced confidence 
• how fear can make us confidently wrong 
• why faith can isolate us from the crowd 
• practical application for workplace witness 
• remembering God’s past faithfulness through testimony and journals 
take what you’ve heard and carry it with you and continue to take 10 more minutes. 

Transcript

Welcome And Hosts Catch Up

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to Ten More Minutes. This is an original podcast from Cross Point Church where we just take a little extra time each week to reflect on Sunday's message. I'm Ryan Ritchie. I'm here with our switchblade pastor, the living embodiment of all other duties assigned. Pastor Michael Buffalo is here with us, and neither one of us preached a message on Sunday, but just like you, we've been sitting with it, we've been reflecting on it. And so we're going to jump back into a conversation about it anyway.

SPEAKER_00 0:26

Yeah, we took the week off. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 0:29

We're headed back uh into the early chapters of Exodus today, and uh we're gonna look at the life of Moses and really this turning point in his life of confidence and his calling and understanding what God has asked him to do. And and so this is one of those moments that deserves a little more space, and so we're gonna take it right now. We're gonna take 10 more minutes. All right, let's get started. Michael, thanks for joining us. Yeah, glad to be here. How are you feeling today?

SPEAKER_00 1:02

Thanks for letting me sit in your seat.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Yes, I decided to switch seats today. There was a couple episodes in that I tried to switch seats, and apparently we were, you know, assigned. So I've I've um here's one where we can uh we can move over for a week. David is, you know, I guess if we're releasing this on a Wednesday, he's maybe already across the pond. Yeah, hopefully on his way, already there, yeah. Vacation on. And um, it was uh last year we celebrated David and Linnell's 20th anniversary as leaders of this church and founders of this church, and uh just as a gift to them, uh we wanted to let them get away and and take some time. And so they planned a whole trip to London and Paris and their two weeks uh of of just good sabbatical fun getaway time together. So we're hoping they have a good time.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

Talk to Linnelle, she was super excited, and David is too, but Linnelle is super excited.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

Yeah, I think they're gonna have fun. He's a historical buff, so they planned a lot of things out there like Normandy and you know, some of the stuff in London.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

I was a little jealous when he said Normandy because I've been to Europe and but that's the one place I've we have never been.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

So I've never gone like that far away. The furthest I've been is Haiti, you know. So I feel like I I need to get out and see the world a little bit. I don't know, something like that. But

Why Moses Matters For Confidence

SPEAKER_01 2:14

yeah. Uh hey, let's start here today. Uh we're gonna look back at Sunday's message, and and David preached this week on uh Exodus chapter three and chapter 14. He preached on confidence, he preached on the life of Moses and how we see confidence grow in his life uh in the Lord. And uh just looking back at that message, uh, what are some things that stuck out to you? Some things that stayed with you. What do you want to go back to if you had 10 more minutes?

SPEAKER_00 2:36

Yeah, it's a great question. And I think um it's funny, I think about 10 more minutes all the time. I've obviously I watch the the pod, but also uh you got one viewer. That's right. Yes. Um, but also I just sort of think about it from the context of, you know, I'm a life group leader, and um, so I think personally, you know, what stuck with me, but also I think to myself, well, what are we going to talk about this Wednesday? You know, to me, one of the best things about Life Group is you you get more time, you know. You know, you don't Pastor David does a phenomenal job of um when he preaches, he preaches to the whole room. You know, everybody can get a hold of what he's preaching, you know. I think uh if you're there um with the right heart and the right motivation. Um so he does a good job of putting things out there for people that have been a Christian for a long time and for for people that are maybe.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

Well that caveat you just made with the right heart and the right motivation.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

It is, it really is important. Yeah, if you don't come with that, then you're not gonna get anything, I don't think. But um, but I say that to say, you know, that is the question I think that all of us should walk away with. It's okay, we've heard the word, and now how should we live? You know, and that's what I love about life groups is we get to break that down and spend more time in it and really think about how does that apply to our lives and stuff like that. And so, you know, for me, teaching life group starts with not just the curriculum, but but thinking about what David preached on and you know, thinking about okay, how now should we live based on what we've heard this Sunday? We don't want to just be hearers of the word, but doers. So for me, one of the things that stuck out to me personally, and one of the things I'm excited to sort of talk about is this idea, and David talked about this early on, you know, he he he he referenced Moses says, Who am I that I should go? You know, and I love David makes this very clear. This is not humility, like this was just straight up self-doubt on the part of uh Moses, and and this is a really important thing, I think, to sort of spend a little bit of time and think about because a lot of us baptize insecurity and call it humility, right? And and there is a big difference between insecurity and humility, and um, and and it's important to understand in this context that Moses isn't being humble, you know, he's being he's being doubtful and he's backing away from this calling that God has given him. And yeah, and how often do we, you know, because as I'm thinking about that, like I'm thinking to myself, well, honestly, same. I did the same thing. David talked about it, you know, in his message, he ran from his calling for five years, and so did I. I think almost every pastor on the planet did, you know, every good pastor. But um, yeah, so that was a big one for me was just to really think about the difference between, you know, um that that idea of of humility and self-doubt, and um and how sometimes we dress up one as humility, and that's not a good place to be, you know. And so that's that's I'm excited to spend a little bit more time talking about that.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

Yeah, uh we sang that song on Sunday, uh song called More Than Able. And uh at the end of that song, the good the tagline says, Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? You know, and it it's one that wrestled with me all week long because maybe just out of my own um thoughtfulness, I don't know if it's education, I don't know if it's you know, whatever it is, but my mind tends to just analytically excuse away the things that God can do. Yes, you know, and um maybe a little differently than how Moses was uh you know was feeling in his life, uh insecure about himself, but sometimes maybe I even just in insecure, like, am I the kind of person that God can do great things with? Yeah, you know, and I I think our mindset needs to change and shift. This who am I conversation is a good one to have, right? Because who am I that the Lord would use me is a fine place of humility to be, you know, but we need to have a a fine line between who am I that the Lord would use me and then Moses's who am I that I can do any of this stuff? Yeah, you know, it's true. The the doubtfulness is is an evidence of something that's true in our lives. We are not good enough on our own to do what it is the Lord has called us to do. That's a great recognition, and every single one of us should start from that point. But when we're at that point, that's exactly where God wants us to be in order to be used to do great things.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

Well, and a beautiful picture of this comparison to me, and and and maybe even a contrast of this is you look at Moses, and like I said, in my mind, it was not humility but self-doubt that he was um racked with and and really allowed to become a wall or a barrier to you know following after God, right? But then you fast forward and you look at Mary, you know, the mother of Jesus, she did have a very humble heart and a very humble approach. She said, let it be, you know, and and and there and there was a difference there, right? And so, and of course, you see incredible fruit from that too, you know, and see, um, and and it's amazing uh in both of those pictures, God still uses the person, but there's different lessons to be learned. And that's what I love about this, is there's a lesson to be learned about dressing up self-doubt as humility instead of just acknowledging what it is and realizing that's something we got to work on too. Yeah, you know, to have a humble and contrite spirit and know that God can use us, and like you said, to not let doubt become this big thing in our life that allows us to not fulfill the will of God.

Presence Over Ability

SPEAKER_00 8:07

Sometimes we ask that question too, like, who am I?

SPEAKER_01 8:08

And we're looking for people to affirm us. And I feel like David sort of talked about that a little bit on Sunday. He goes, like, when when would God ever just say, like, you're good enough, like you've got you've got it? And and God never really goes down those trains of thought with us, you know, trying to affirm uh our own image and our own desire. He's really trying to promote his image in us. I wanted to talk about that a little bit later. But um, you know, that was one thing that I feel like I took away from from David's second point. He says, confidence is trusting God's presence and not our own abilities. He made the point that he never affirms our own self-image. He's always repeating his own image. And I thought about that passage from uh from Matthew where Jesus is talking about uh render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, that's right. And render unto God what is God's. And if if you think about that in terms of like money, they might have had some printed money or some coins of such that they would be asking this question with. And he says, pull out a coin and and show me the image that's on the coin, whose face is on it, right? And so Caesar's face is on it, and he says, Render to Caesar what is Caesar's. But then when he says, Render unto God's what is God, it's almost like he's saying, Look at your life, that's right, and whose image is on it. Look at your image, your face, whose image is stamped on it. Yeah, and that's the that's the the thing that I want is I want your life, right? And uh, I also think to to Revelation chapter five, when this this great image of the scroll that's being, you know, um uh handed off to the lamb that is slain, they're looking for the one that is worthy, and they're singing a song about him, and they they say in the song that he was ransomed for uh that he ransomed a people for God. Right. And uh and I think if we ever need to look at our lives and and like we want to pick me up, or or we're needing somebody to pat us on the back, or or we're needing to figure out kind of a a little bit of joy in our life that we can take and we say, like, uh, you know, is this frame worth anything? Well, well, Jesus died for you so that you could be ransomed as a gift presented from Jesus to the Heavenly Father who created all things. Right. You are a gift that God desires to live with for all of eternity.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

Why would he do that if he didn't see you of as as of great value in a person? That should be enough for us.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

It is to say, you know, we we are we are something in the eyes of God.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

Yeah, I love how when David was talking about that, you know, he he you know, he his response when when you know God calls him, he says, Well, who am I? You know, and I love how David points this out too, that he doesn't even really answer him, he doesn't answer that question. Yeah, you know, he just moves on and says, I'll be with you, which is awesome, you know, incredible promise. And you know, basically God's saying, You're asking the wrong question. You should be asking, Who am I? You should be asking, Who am I? Like, you know, to to the Lord, and and uh and it shifts from you know that that perspective shifts then from identity, personal identity to presence, you know, presence with God. And I think that's what builds confidence in us, right? It's like, you know, uh, there's no doubt that God would not have done the things he did if he didn't see us of of great value and of great worth. Um, but God doesn't build confidence by telling us we're amazing and telling us we're worth it and all that kind of stuff, right? He builds confidence by his presence. Yeah, you know, just the fact that we that we get to be close to the creator of the heavens and the earth. I think about that almost every time I pray. Yeah is like the fact that I get to speak to the creator of the heavens and the earth is such a huge gift and should be such a huge confidence booster for us, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:52

Yeah, let's take a shift. Let's talk a little bit then also about maybe some things that weren't discussed on Sunday. You know, every time you preach a message, there's always a lot on the cutting floor. There's always more that can be researched. David was in Exodus 3, he was also in Exodus 14. And I wonder if there was something that uh that is as you were listening, you thought, well, if I had 10 minutes, I might go there with it. What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 12:15

Man, that's a good one. You know, uh, he did such a good job, I think, of of covering it. I I think for me, I don't know. I don't know if I if there is anything I can think of specifically. I do know, you know, for me it was this idea of um later that transition, you know, his his after moment, you know, we had this before and after moment, you know, and um uh it he he was like the question is what changed in him, right? And and David sort of talked about this, he laid out all you know, Pharaoh's army closing in, but he but but here's the key is like before that, you know, before all and that's the part that maybe wasn't discussed as much, right? It was like he remembered all the things that God had done, the the the plagues and the miracles that came from that and and the protection that God had provided in in so many different ways. And even in his own personal life, think about his journey from a child who should have been put to death, right, to to a prince of Egypt or whatever, and and uh to coin a phrase, but um, or to use a phrase, I should say, but you know, that's that's this amazing uh, you know, God or excuse me, Moses. He could say the things that he said because he had this memory of what God had done, not just for him, but for his people, you know, and uh and and and that again is this huge confidence builder. You know, that's the thing that I, you know, um I feel like, man, could have spent so much more time there, you know. Yeah, there's a lot only a few minutes in a sermon, you know.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

There's a lot in the character in the life of Moses to go through, and even just in between the scenes that we're talking about here of how God uses him and transforms him into something that is an incredible figure in our history. But you look at him, and he really probably was an unimpressive figure, you know, and and had all these weaknesses to overcome. But God did something amazing in his life. You know, sometimes we look at our lives and go, I've got all these weaknesses, I don't think God really can do much with it. Uh but then when we submit ourselves to his will and his authority, we see, man, I've grown so much, I'm doing things I never thought that I would be able to do, you know. But it's really the hand of God at work in our lives. Um, last week we were on the integrity discussion with Joseph, and we were talking about um temptation a little bit. And in the message, it sort of highlighted the temptation that Joseph felt. But in the podcast, we were able to kind of bring out too that there were two characters that were tempted in the

Confidence Pointed At The Wrong Thing

SPEAKER_01 14:43

story. Right. Uh Joseph and Potiphar's wife, one fell, one stood strong, right? And in this story that we talk about in Exodus 14 this week, there were two uh characters that exhibited confidence in Exodus chapter 14. And uh one exhibited confidence in the Lord, the other exhibited confidence in what they saw in what was in front of them. And so obviously we see Moses, he exhibits this great confidence in the Lord, see the salvation of the Lord is coming. Right you know, but before that, we see the Israelites who are looking at the Egyptians approaching them, and they feel pretty confident these guys are about to come and kill us. That's right. All of my experience will tell me all of my experience will tell me we're not in the right place right now, this isn't good. And they look at Moses, they go, Moses, why did you bring us here in order for us to just die here? We would have rather died starving in Egypt versus dying here, you know. And they have all the confidence in the world in how they interpret what's happening in front of them.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

Right.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

They just have confidence in the wrong thing.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

In the wrong thing. Right.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

And so our lives, man, it's a matter of seeing it the right way. I think there's two things we take away from it.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

We can get lost confidently going the wrong way. Absolutely. And I uh you know, it's funny because I I try to put myself in the shoes of the you know Israelites at that in that moment, I think I would have been panicked and I think I would have been in the same place, honestly. You know, I wish I could say, oh no, no, I would be Moses in this, you know, situation, not not these the Israelite people, but I'm pretty sure I would be cowering and scared to death as well. Even though they saw the exact same things that Moses saw. You know, that that's what's um uh but yeah, that misplaced confidence is such a huge thing. And I and I think that so many of us, we do the same thing, right, in our in our daily lives. We we elevate so many things, we make them bigger than God. And and um, and sometimes we do it without even knowing it. You know, it's one thing to be in a place of panic or fear or you know, something took you by surprise, but sometimes it's a much longer, slower burn that we find ourselves in a place where over time we've just let go of trust and confidence in who God is, you know, and uh man, that's not a place where I want to be, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

Used to live in Lakeland, Florida, and we would make these trips from Lakeland, Florida to West Monroe, Louisiana for all of our family Christmases. That's where my grandparents used to live, and all of our family trips were were going there. Uh, but that's a 14 and a half hour drive from Lakeland, Florida to West Monroe, Louisiana. Right. And my parents would split the drive up. You know, dad would drive most of the time, but just so he could get some sleep, mom would drive some of the time as well. And uh, I remember one particular trip, which was actually my first time in Valdasta. Um, my mom was supposed to drive from uh I think it was like Gainesville, Florida, and she was gonna drive a stint to get to like Pensacola or Tallahassee or something like that, which meant going up I-10, she had to make the turn to get on to, or sorry, going going up 75, right? She had to make the turn to get on I-10, right? And so before dad goes to sleep in the car, hey, this is the one turn you've got to make. You've got to get to 10, you've got to go west, right? One job. One job, right? And I don't care how long we go from there, just make sure we get on 10. We're only about you know 30 minutes away from from 10 or something like that. And so two hours later, he wakes up and we're in Valdasta, Georgia. We have blown through, you know, the the I-10 intersection, and we end up in Valdasta, and my dad's like, what are we doing? You know, but the whole time my mom was confidently driving the wrong way, right? And did not get us to where we were trying to go. But that was our first time in Valdasta. Now, now I live here, you know.

SPEAKER_00 18:33

So I my wife is scared to go to sleep in the car for that same reason. Like that I'm gonna do it. Are you the one? Oh, yeah, I'm the one. Like, and you know, luckily, technology, I'm good at following directions, I'm just not good at finding directions. You know, it's like I can listen to Siri, and Siri will tell me where to go and I'll do it, you know. But but uh, but yeah, April used to be very afraid to go to sleep.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

And I love it. That's hilarious. One more funny story on this. Um, used to coach a kindergarten basketball team. Have you ever had the pleasure of of doing something like that? And you're trying to teach kids the difference between yeah, yeah, yeah. One time is enough. Um, you try to teach the kids the difference between offense and defense, and of course, on offense, we're trying to score. Right. And on defense, we got our hands up, right? And we get our little knees bent into our posture of defense, and we're gonna guard, you know. And the little upward league we were in, you had a color that you were supposed to find on your sleeve to match the person that of similar competitive skill set or whatever, and you're supposed to guard that person. And the funny part is when you get to these kindergarten basketball teams, they don't know when we transitioned from offense to defense. Right. And so you'll get to a section of the court where there are two kids that are both guarding each other, both are hands up, and they're just moving back and forth like uh who's on defense, right? They have no idea. And they're confidently doing it, but they're confidently doing the wrong thing. And Moses in this story is looking at Israelites that are confidently doing the wrong thing. Right. And he's just saying, look, your focus is this way. I want your focus to turn the other way. Leave what is terrifying you behind you, leave all your excuses behind you, leave every ounce of your fear behind you, and turn around because God is about to do something incredible, and you're just confidently looking in the wrong direction. Yeah. You know, we need to have confidence in the right thing, shift our focus in the right direction in order to see what it is that God's doing. Sometimes we miss completely that God is on offense and we're just stuck in a defensive posture looking the wrong direction.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

Well, I often think to myself, like, again, put myself in Moses' shoes in that moment, like, did he know? Did he have any clue what was about to happen? I don't think he did. I mean, who could unless, unless like the Lord whispered into his ear, hey, I'm about to spart the Red Sea, you know, like I don't think he had a clue what was about to happen, but he knew something was gonna happen, you know. And I love those moments, and I think the scripture doesn't tell us for a reason, you know, it's uh it's not important if it was important, you know, they would say. Um, but but for sure, you know, there are places in scripture that do speak to that idea of, you know, they had in their mind that God was gonna do this at least. You know, I love how Hebrews sort of speaks to that, right? It's like when when Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac, Hebrews gives us some insight on that, that he thought that God was gonna bring him back from the dead. That's what he was certain of. He was able to have faith in a resurrection he'd never seen. That's right. And it's such a cool, beautiful picture that we get to see that we get to know what was in the mind of that that this man was going to do it. He was good, he had every intention of sacrificing his son, knowing that God would bring him back to life. And of course, the Lord stayed his hand. And but I do wonder in the same way, but but either way, like God, like Abraham or excuse me, Moses had such confidence in the Lord, I don't think he did know.

Faith Can Make You The Outlier

SPEAKER_01 21:53

Well, but think about all these characters too in scripture. You you could you talk about Abraham, you could talk about Noah, you could talk about um Moses. Isaiah, all these characters that exhibit great trust and confidence and faith in Jesus and faith in the Lord, whenever you get to a place of exhibiting great confidence in God, you will be the isolated figure in comparison to a world that is just trusting what they know and what they understand. There's something to be said about that in the life of the believer of just understanding if I'm going to possess a confidence in the Lord, it's going to put me in some awkward position. Whatever that meme is with the die, the guy that stands up and it's like, what opinion do you have that puts you in this isolated place where everyone doesn't like you? Hey, just having confidence in the Lord is enough to put you in a place like that, in a world that flows its own direction.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

I think we should be okay with that, right? Absolutely. I think we should be, I think uh, we should strive for it.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Well, you know, who would be against me, right, if the Lord is for me, and that's all I really need in this life.

SPEAKER_00 22:53

Yeah, you know, and even if it puts us at odds with God's people, because that's what it did with with uh Moses, right? It put him at even at odds with the Israelites, you know, they were basically cussing him out and saying, What do you what are we doing? You know, and uh, but but his confidence was so great that you know it didn't matter. It didn't matter, you know. And I think you know, in his mind he knew God was gonna do something big, he didn't know what, but he just he was excited. Uh, you know, I think that's sometimes it's the mindset that we have to have too is just I don't know what he's gonna do, but I'm excited to see it. You know, that's an incredible

Workplace Witness And Telling Your Story

SPEAKER_00 23:28

place to be.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

I think it brings us back to a really practical question, and we can close it out here if going back to the application, right? When we think about this idea of confidence, it's not in ourselves, it's in God and what he says for us in this life. And so, how does that actually play out in our day-to-day, week to week? Um, this is your so what moment, right? So I I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on the application.

SPEAKER_00 23:49

Yeah, I think the takeaway for me was uh basically what you just said. I mean, you know, if if if God is calling us, then um I think for so for for me at least, I want to be an influence, you know, I want to be a spiritual influence. And but so often that fear and self-doubt creeps in and says, but I don't have the ability, you know. But God is not asking for your ability, he's asking for your trust, you know, he's asking for your for your submission, you know, your willingness to uh to be. And you know, I love how Dave was talking about the workplace witness. You know, I don't I don't know what to say to my coworkers and you know, and things like that. Neither did Moses, yeah, neither did Jeremiah. Jesus understood that. He said, Take no thought of what you're gonna say. He says, I'm gonna give you the words to say, you know, it doesn't mean that we don't have to be in the word, it doesn't mean you know we should never study the Bible because God's gonna tell us exactly what to say and when to say it. It means saturate yourself in the word, but you don't have to pre-plan your answers. You don't have to, you know, and and this was the best part to me was that we have a testimony, you know. Again, go back to Moses. He had that confidence because he remembered what God had done in his life and the people of Israel. Yeah, we all have that. Like I can argue with people till the cows come home about, you know, I can argue with an atheist or this or that and the other, but you're not gonna argue with me about my testimony. It's mine, you know, it's what God has done in my life, you know, it's my story. And so we all have that story to tell. I think that's the the so what for me, and the so what for us is tell that story. Tell what God has done in your life. If you do nothing else, I think if you do that, you know, then then we'll be successful, right?

SPEAKER_01 25:37

Yeah. Remembering is such a great point. This um this part of the Bible, this this Red Sea crossing, uh, this plague of Egypt, you know, all of these things that take place here in these first 20 chapters of Exodus, right? So much of the Old Testament is calling back to this moment. Every chapter, right? You get to the Psalms, and there's almost not a single one that goes by without David remembering this moment. Right. So this is obviously part of the reason God records this and does this in the nation of Israel. I almost think about that if I can go backtrack for a minute. I didn't plan on saying this, but just um they were in the promised land.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Right.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Jacob was in the promised land, right? They got there. The promised land isn't the Joshua thing. They were there before.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Right.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

And God caused a great famine so that they would have to go move to Egypt. Then they were blessed in Egypt for a season, and then God caused great trial to occur in Egypt. And I wonder if part of the reason that some of this happens is so that God could create this incredible exodus moment for the nation of Israel to remember for all time. Right. Look how I delivered you. You know, sometimes we're looking for these huge Red Sea moments at all times. We may only get one of them in our lifetime.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

We may only get one of them in several generations of lifetimes that we get to remember and call back to and know that God is good enough and he is able and he has delivered us, and I don't need him to do it every day of my life or to see it over and over again. I need to remember it when it comes my way. Um, I love families sometimes when I hear stories of families that have little prayer journals as a family or or miracle journals as a family and can record uh when they undoubtedly have seen the hand of God at work in their lives, and over and over again as a family can go back and read them and recall them. Uh, we were just reading one this week uh to Major of a story when he was two and a half years old, and we discovered this very rare blood disorder in his life that we had no idea what was there, but he woke up one morning in a pool of his own blood, and we had to take him to the hospital, and uh they treated him for ITP, which is a rare sort of ish blood disorder. But for us anyway, it was just this incredible way of God delivering him uh from something that we didn't know what it was. We were terrified, and we'll always remember that. And I got the chance to share it with Major because he didn't remember it. He was only two and a half years old, you know. But yeah, just to have stories like that that you can always point to and say, God cares for us, he loves us, he cares for us, and provides for us, he protects us, and this is how he's done it for us. Let's remember it, you know.

SPEAKER_00 28:23

Yeah, there's no doubt in my mind that that weakness is not the disqualifier, or at least not in God's eyes, right? We've seen too many. I mean, uh, even that quote that David shares like every giant in our life was uh I don't remember I'm ruining the quote, but every giant in our life was, you know, was someone who was tiny and insignificant and and full of self-doubt. You know, it's like weakness is not the disqualifier. Self-doubt is often God's strategy, I think.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

You know, I well and uh just you'll pause for a second. Everybody, uh this is something I learned a while ago, and and it's really useful in my life. Everyone we meet is insecure. Right. Every single person is insecurity, it is not a you problem, it's a it's a human problem. That's right. And everyone is insecure. And if you can think on those terms, I think it helps me because I'm out here worrying what everybody else thinks about me, and everybody else is out there worrying what I think about them. So if we can all just stop worrying about each other, you know, that would be some benefit to the problem. But also, it's not about transforming insecurity into something else, it's about relinquishing insecurity unto the Lord.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

That's right. And it's interesting to me how even in the midst of that, in his in God's sovereignty, he uses that too. You know, he uses those moments and and and there's fruit that comes from those moments of insecurity. And, you know, it's it's something I can look back on my life in the times where I've doubted my salvation and doubted my calling and doubt, you know, doubted, have been full of self-doubt about all sorts of things, you know. Um, even in those moments, God has used those times to teach me about confidence. I I wouldn't have the confidence that I have today in the Lord and and even in my calling if I didn't have those moments. And, you know, God didn't just move away from me, you know, He He took a step towards me even in those moments, you know. And I think, you know, sometimes that that's the biggest part of it is it's obviously what contributes to confidence, but I think it's also what it's what allows us, again, to come back to this idea of telling your story. It's what allows us to impart hope to other people. You know, you could say, look what God did in my life. This is not just for me to remember, it's for you to see as well, you know, and uh and it becomes a powerful, you know, we've seen how you know the testimony of believers changes lives and changes hearts more than anything in some ways. Yeah.

Sufficiency From God And Closing

SPEAKER_01 30:45

Hey, I want to finish here. I just want to go back to Second Corinthians chapter two. This is where David kind of landed the ship on Sunday, and yeah, such a great one for us to remember. It says in verse three such is the confidence we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us sufficient to be ministers of the new covenant. And so you're exactly the right kind of person that God can use, and you are exactly where you need to be in order for God to use you. And let's relinquish our insecurity unto him, and let's recognize that he has made us sufficient for the calling that he's given to us so that we can go out into the world and testify of the goodness and the greatness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Michael, thanks for joining us this week. Thanks for coming back to Moses. It was fun. You did a great job. David, we miss you. Hope you're having fun in Europe where you are. Be safe. And Cross Point Family, thanks for joining us and taking a few extra minutes. As always, our hope is that you wouldn't just take what you heard on Sunday and leave it there, but that it would continue to shape the way that you trust and follow Jesus this week. And so take what you've heard and carry it with you and continue to take 10 more minutes. We'll see you next time.