God uses basket cases

Sunday school kids can tell you that what kind of pitch was used to make Mose's basket water-tight and what kind of reeds he was stuck in.

How many actually remember that he was set adrift because the Egyptian King had issued a decree to kill all male babies because they were afraid of them.

Do they recall that the Hebrew mid-wives feared God more than death by the hand of Pharaoh and that they lied to him? (Exodus 1:17ff)

Moses would grow to be a hot-headed murder, a real basket case from birth, and God would use him to same his people.

Yes, God loves basket people. We forget that. We think he loves box people who look like they have all of theirs in a row. We get caught up in the details and miss the big workings of God. We loose sight of the fact that God is God and we are not.

Let me be brutally honest; God did a fine job running the world before we were born and will do a fine job of it after we die. While we are here we have the highest privilege of being part of his plan and workings of redemption for the world.

When we understand this simple fact, that we are basket cases and yet God draws us out of the water the we will understand love;

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; he drew me out of deep waters.

He rescued me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me

for they were too mighty for me

Psalm 18:16-17

When we see Jesus as his father sees him we become basket cases too. When we are given the gift of seeing him as the disciples did on the mountain top we are as undone as Isiah was in the heavenly realms. 

When we understand we are basket-cases, and become basket cases, Jesus picks up our case and we are deemed free from the flood.