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Your Message And Not Yourselfthe most prominent thing. Don't be self-conscious Set your heart on what God has given you to do, and don't be so foolish as to let your own difficulties or your own abilities stand in the way. It is said that people would go to hear Cicero and would come away and say, "Did you ever hear anything like it? wasn't it sublime? wasn't it grand?" But they would go and hear Demosthenes, and he would fire them so with the subject that they would want to go and fight at once. They forgot all about Demosthenes, but were stirred by his message; that was the difference between the two men. Next Moses said: "O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send." Did you ever stop to think what Moses would have lost if God had taken him at his word, and said: "Very well, Moses; you may stay here in the desert, and I will send Aaron, or Joshua, or Caleb!" Don't seek to be excused if God calls you to some service. What would the twelve disciples have lost if they had declined the call of Jesus! I have always pitied those other disciples of whom we read that they went back, and walked no more with Jesus. Think what Orpah missed and what Ruth gained by cleaving to Naomi's God! Her story has been Next: Told These Three Thousand Years Previous: Not An Orator
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