Aug. 2
SPEAK WHAT HE TEACHES
"Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee
what thou shalt say" Exod. 4:12
Many a true servant of the Lord is slow of speech, and when called
upon to plead for his Lord, he is in great confusion lest he should
spoil a good cause by his bad advocacy. In such a case it is well to
remember that the Lord made the tongue which is so slow, and we must
take care that we do not blame our Maker. It may be that a slow tongue
is not so great an evil as a fast one, and fewness of words may be
more of a blessing than floods of verbiage. It is also quite certain
that real saving power does not lie in human rhetoric, with its
tropes, and pretty phrases, and grand displays. Lack of fluency is not
so great a lack as it looks.
If God be with our mouth, and with our mind, we shall have
something better than the sounding brass of eloquence, or the tinkling
cymbal of persuasion. God's teaching is wisdom; His presence is power.
Pharaoh had more reason to be afraid of stammering Moses than of the
most fluent talker in Egypt; for what he said had power in it; he
spoke plagues and deaths. If the Lord be with us in our natural
weakness we shall be girt with supernatural power. Therefore, let us
speak for Jesus boldly, as we ought to speak.