“And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”
Chuck told Jeff he needed some help. Jeff, being a great friend, was eager to help. Not knowing a thing about cars except how to put gas in one, Jeff was completely on the kindergarten level of auto repair and Chuck knew this. Chuck tells Jeff to go and put some headlight fluid in the headlights because they were low and needed to be filled up. With haste, Jeff scurries off to find the headlight fluid and then to fill up those headlights. Thirty minutes go by as Jeff seems to look everywhere for this headlight fluid. Finally he turns to Chuck asks him, “where is the headlight fluid?” Chuck and Danny loose it completely and break out into a laughter that we still talk about today. I wish we all had that kind of blind obedience.
The old burning bush story, I will bet this can be told by anyone who ever entered a church. It is truly a wonderful story, but as Paul Harvey said “Here is the rest of the story” Moses was married with a child and his life seemed to be peaceful in the Midianites land. Moses was shepherding and raising a family. Most of us can relate but the rest of the story is what changed the world. Moses saw a burning bush and decided to go look at it. He did this because it is human nature to be curious about the miraculous, even though we don’t always understand it.
What happens next is often skipped over at Sunday school. God speaks from the bush and tells Moses he is going to deliver the Israelite nation from Egypt. What follows this announcement is crazy. He asks a series of questions, Exodus 3:11 “Who am I that I should go…”, 3:13 “Suppose I go to them and they ask what is his name….” 4:1 “What if they do not believe….” 4:10 “I have never been eloquent…” 4:13 “..please send someone else.”
Five times Moses tries to get out of it and five times God meets Moses right at his point of unbelief. I will bet no-one at Sunday school told you Moses had a hard time believing he was the one.
How many times have you pulled a Moses? Every time Moses met God with question of unbelief it was referring to his own power and strength in himself. God met him with a spiritual truths to overcome his unbelief. The Bible says in Zechariah 4:6 “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts” Moses had to learn this valuable lesson. We often look at something God has put in our path and lean on our own power, but here God shows Moses that He will be with him and, guess what, all Moses had to do was show up and let God handle it.
You may be facing something that seems to be enormous and too large for you. God is saying the same thing to you in verse 4:11 “Who gave human beings their mouths?….It is not I, the Lord? Now go…” God has big plans for you and no amount of mistakes, sin, or failure can get in the way.
Father, help us not get in the way of your plans by questioning our own resolve but help us trust in you and go. Amen.
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