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From: "Linda Gosse" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Linda Gosse" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 6:56 AM
Subject: The Word For Today: Friday July 28th


> "MOSES WAS...MORE HUMBLE THAN ANYONE ELSE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH." ( 
> NUMBERS 12:3 NIV ) CHECK YOUR EGO It took 40 years of living like a 
> shepherd ( and oh, how the Egyptians despised shepherds!) to discipline 
> Moses' ego. Only then, at age 80, was he ready to live life on God's 
> terms. The man who emerged from the desert was decidedly different from 
> the man who entered it. It's our "desert experiences" that keep our egos 
> in check. Without them, we start believing our own press and get into 
> trouble. God told King Saul, "When you were little in your own eyes I was 
> able to use you" ( See 1 Sa 15:17 ). When Colonel Samuel Logan Brengle of 
> the Salvation Army was once introuded as "the great Colonel Brengle," he 
> wrote in his journal: "If I appear great in their eyes, the Lord is most 
> gracious in helping me to see how absolutely nothing I am without Him. He 
> does use me. But I'm so conscious that He uses me, and that it's not of me 
> that the work is done. The axe cannot boast of the
> trees it has cut down. It could do nothing without the woodsman. He made 
> it, he sharpened it, he used it, and the moment he throws it aside it 
> becomes only old used iron. Oh, that I may never lose sight of this." A 
> young English man once came ot live int he community led by Gandhi. When 
> assigned to clean latrines, he protested, "Dont you know who I am? I have 
> great things go do." Gandhi replied, "I know you can do great things; what 
> I don't know is if you can do little things." Check your ego! Linda("The 
> Prayerwarrior/Angel") (\o/) email: [log in to unmask]
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