‘Choosing’ is a very well selected word to translate the original. Moses saw through Egypt; he believed the word of God.
How do we think about Christian effectiveness and influence? ‘What we want is somebody great. If only in these days we could have a politician, who became a frontbench MP and a significant person and somebody making the headlines, even a Prime Minister, somebody noticed and significant speaking up for our cause: that would do something.’ The life of Moses and the life of every other instrument of God in the Bible says the opposite. God takes him out of the place where, according to human wisdom, he had potential for mighty things, and instead casts him into affliction and poverty with zero influence and zero hopes of accomplishing his great mission in life. From that God makes him the greatest servants of God in the entire Bible. So we learn our reasoning from the Bible. It is by the power of the Holy Spirit, the power of the word that we function and operate. Isn’t it astonishing the amount of applause there is in the church of Christ now? Applause for every preacher, applause for every instrumentalist, applause for just about anyone. It is so fleshly. There is absolutely no place for applause of human instruments in the church of Christ. It is the destruction of a vital principle that says that only God may receive our worship and our praise.
Young people have got to plan their future. You have found the Lord but you have got to plan your career or what you do or where you study your chosen subject. You have got to do all these things responsibly; you have got to give it mind and attention. But if you are saved, the devil will come to you, even as you do these things and he will inflate your desires and afflict your mind with worldly and materialistic aims and aspirations, and he will sway your thinking so that these are the big things in your estimation. Yes, you have got to do the thinking, you have got to pray for help and take sensible decisions. And at the same time, you have got to avoid having your mind filled with material objectives and personal ambition.