Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmoth. Have you ever known or admired someone who seemed to be

larger than life? Only to feel a little deflated when you realized they were human just like the rest of us.

Kind of like the Wizard of Oz, you pull back the curtain and you realize it's just a man standing on a podium back there.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was arguably one of the great

presidents in American history and part of his power and effectiveness came

through his image but he was so concerned about that image that he made

sure he was never video or photographed in his wheelchair. Even though he

developed polio at the age of 39 and had to be lifted in and out of bed by a valet.

Even those fairly close to him didn't know the extent of his paralysis.

He insisted on endless practice before public appearances because according to his

sons what the public saw should look like a man who didn't need assistance.

But what if our limitations are actually not

a weakness but a strength?

What if the most effective leaders

are those who recognize their limitations and work with them instead of against them.

At the end of Moses' life, the facades of power that had led him to kill an Egyptian as a young man and the pride that made

him cold water out of a rock against the Lord's command had been kind of smoothed over and

maybe softened by a faithful walk with his faithful

and merciful Lord. When he was old and weak he didn't try to look like something

that he was not.

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