As I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

As I was with Moses, so I will be with you 

"There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." KJV+, Joshua 1:5

As God was with Moses and with the men and women we read about in Scripture, so He will be with us. What God promised the children of Israel, He also promises us today. The covenant He made with them reveals His heart toward us now. As He was to them, so He is to us. God does not love us less than He loved Israel. The same love He demonstrated toward them, He extends to us.

Therefore, we must read the Scriptures in the light of our own lives, needs, and challenges. The Bible is not merely a historical record; it is a living revelation. As God showed Himself mighty to save, deliver, and use Moses—and others in Scripture—so He will show Himself mighty in our lives today.

However, we must also discern what God saw in their lives that caused Him to walk with them, favour them, and use them mightily.

Moses was found helpless—crying in a basket among the reeds along the Nile, exposed to death under Pharaoh’s decree. Yet God caused Pharaoh’s own daughter to discover and rescue him. It was not Moses’ strength that attracted God’s intervention; it was his helplessness. He could not save himself.

In the same way, God did not find us because we were good, strong, or perfect. He found us in our sin, weakness, and imperfection. It was our sinful condition that made salvation necessary. While we contributed nothing to our salvation except the sin that required it, God located us in mercy and saved us by grace.

Yet there is a distinction between being saved by God and being used by Him.

God finds us in our sin to save us, but He finds us in our obedience to empower and use us. As we follow Him, He looks for growth in obedience, faithfulness, and surrender. God cannot be deceived—whatever a man sows, he will reap. We cannot live irresponsibly and expect to carry divine responsibility.

If we desire to be strengthened and used by God, we must invest spiritually. We must seek Him in prayer, pursue Him in fasting, and immerse ourselves in the study of His Word. These spiritual investments increase our capacity, deepen our grace, and strengthen the anointing upon our lives. As we sow into the Spirit, the mighty hand of God becomes evident in us and through us.

God saves us by grace, but He entrusts and empowers us through obedience.

As He was with Moses, so He will be with us—but we must walk with Him.

Samson Adelanke
samsonadelanke@gmail.com 

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