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Special Testimonies On Education
disqualify them for the molding and fashioning which the Lord desires
to give them. Thus they are not found bearing, as did Moses, the
divine similitude. By submitting to God’s discipline, Moses became
a sanctified channel through which the Lord could work. He did not
hesitate to change his way for the Lord’s way, even though it did
lead in strange paths, in untried ways. He did not permit himself to
make use of his education by showing the unreasonableness of God’s
commands, and the impossibility of obeying them. No; he placed a
very low estimate upon his own qualifications to complete successfully
the great work which the Lord had given him. When he started on
his commission to deliver the people of God from their bondage, to
all human appearances it was a most hopeless undertaking; but he
confided in him with whom all things are possible.
Many in our day have had far better opportunities, enjoyed far
greater privileges, for obtaining a knowledge of God, than did Moses;
but his faith puts to shame their manifest unbelief. At the command
of God, Moses advanced, although there was nothing ahead for his
feet to tread upon. More than a million people were depending upon
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him, but he led them forward step by step, day by day. God permitted
these lonely travels through the wilderness so that they might obtain
an experience in enduring hardships, and so that when they were in
peril, they might know that there was relief and deliverance in God
alone, and that thus they might learn to know and to trust God, and to
serve him with a living faith. It was not the teachings of the schools
of Egypt that enabled Moses to triumph over all his enemies, but an
ever-abiding faith, an unflinching faith, a faith that did not fail under
the most trying circumstances.
When God commanded Moses to do anything, he did it without
stopping to consider what the consequences might be. He gave God
credit for wisdom to know what he meant and firmness of purpose to
mean what he said; and therefore Moses acted as seeing the Invisible.
God is not seeking for men of perfect education. His work is not to
wait while his servants go through such wonderfully elaborate prepa-
rations as our schools are planning to give; but the Lord wants men
to appreciate the privilege of being laborers together with God,—men
who will honor him by rendering implicit obedience to his require-
ments, regardless of previously inculcated theories. There is no limit
to the usefulness of those who put self to one side, make room for