Beth Moore
February 5, 2003
7:15 pm
Message Summary
"When was your last ‘who is this’ moment?" Beth Moore asked at Wednesday evening's Founder's Week session. Moore spoke from Mark 4:41 where Christ's disciples exclaim: "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!" Moore noted that if we are serious about the business of holiness, we have to seek the holy God. Not only must we seek Him, but it has to be on his terms that we come to know Him and be formed in his image. She called for resurgence in our lives of “holy wonder”—an unwillingness to settle into a comfortable concept of who God is.
Even with the best intentions, it is easy to forget that when seeking God’s heart, we must do just that and seek Him. Too often we feel that we must determine the means and time that we meet God. He has to come when we are ready and only with the amount of conviction that we want. Moore called for complete surrender to God through a recognition of his Word and it’s power to change us. “Above all, we must ask Him to give us the gift of holy wonder…we are called to explore God, not to explain Him.” Moore explained that we must listen for God’s voice, for it is primarily our ability to hear his voice that defines us as His people.
Student Response
This message was a refreshing challenge to remember who is truly the God in this relationship. More so, it encouraged me to read the Bible with faith that God’s power and words still reside in the verses recorded within. The power that spoke the universe into motion is the same power that resides in the words of the Scriptures, as Moore pointed out. God will work in us to the extent that we beg Him—ask and it will be given. Moore’s message helped me realize I need to focus my eyes on the whole concept of holiness. God’s otherness gives him the freedom to define himself, and thus to define my encounter of him.
—Jessie Davis, Senior, Communications/Print Media major