How Do You Eat an Elephant?

That's a tough question. How exactly do you eat an elephant? Now, when I say elephant, I don't actually mean a real elephant. Although, I have never tasted one...it may be good. Sometimes the situations and circumstances in our life can grow into this huge two ton elephant that just stands in the midst of all the things that we do.

That's what has been happenning to me over the past few weeks. Everything has been happening at the same time and the stress over each ordeal has grown together and turned me into this ball of stress that can't really do anything because I didn't know where to start!

It gets difficult when life seems so overwhelming that you just can't figure out where to start to get everything done.  I bet Moses felt that way. You can read about his account starting in Exodus chapter 2.  So here is this guy who just found out who is family is, has fled the country because of a murder and is raising sheep in a place where no one knows him or bothers him.  Then one day, as Moses is minding his own business, God shows up and tells Moses that he has to lead the Israelites out of Egypt.  Talk about a huge job.  Moses protested and even tried to get out of the job, but God was persistent.  God reassured Moses that it was a big task, but that He would travel with Moses and be in all that he said and did.  He beckoned Moses to go and that was the first step to the release of the Israelites from Egypt.  Moses going.

Moses had a big task ahead of him that only God could pull him through.  But Moses had to start.  He had to take on this elephant and trust that God would provide him the strength to finish.  We are the same way.  God has called us to great things.  He promises to help us with everything need to live up to the potential He has created in us.  We just have to move.  We just have to be ready to move little by little towards the people that God has called us to be.

So...how do you eat an elephant?  Simple...one bite at a time.