Acts 7:20-50
Once again, just like He did with Joseph, God raised Moses up as a deliverer. And, again, the Hebrews reject God’s chosen one. But God doesn’t give up on His people. Psalm 106:7 says, "When our ancestors were in Egypt, they gave no thought to your miracles; they did not remember your many kindnesses, and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea."
God heard the misery of the Israelites even though, according to Psalm 106:7, they were unfaithful to God while in Egypt. And He still used Moses as He planned even though Moses murdered an Egyptian.The Hebrews turned their hearts back to Egypt.
Think about that for a minute. Despite everything God had done for them, they longed to go back to the place where they were enslaved. They told Aaron to make them a golden calf to worship, and Aaron did. Now Aaron tried to merge this Egyptian god represented by the golden calf with the God of the Israelites by saying in Exodus 32:5 that they would have a feast to the Lord the next day. The people said that the calf was the god who brought them out of Egypt and offered sacrifices to the calf and worshiped it. Verse 41 says that they reveled in what their own hands had made. They rejected God in favor of the idols they made. But God still gave them the chance to repent.
But how many people do you know think they are outside of the reach of God’s love? There may be people that hear this message that believe that they have sinned so much that they have ruined whatever plan God had for them. That is the ultimate in self-worship!
Who are we to think that we can derail God’s plan for us? How often do we convince ourselves that we are unworthy of participating in God’s plan because of whatever in our past? How often do we look at someone else and deem them unfit to be a part of God’s plan?
My question to anyone who takes it upon themselves to determine someone’s worthiness to be part of God’s plan (even if it is their own) is, “Who died and made you God?” Who made you ruler and judge?
We can’t do anything, nor can anything be done to us that can make us forever unworthy of God’s love or His plan short of turning our back on God and refusing to repent. Don’t get me wrong, we can refuse to participate, but because of Jesus, God sees us as worthy.