But God I can’t…. I’m not good enough, strong enough, wise enough, smart enough. Every one of us has said something like this to God. We have this sense that the Lord wants us to do this, that or another thing and then we rationalize ourselves out of it. That is precisely what Moses tried to do.
Despite the burning bush and the fact that he was conversing with God Almighty, Moses tried to beg off God’s call to go and save the Israelites.
We enter the conversation toward the end. Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue." The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say." But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it." Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses … (10-14).
Moses is pushing God’s patience. The Lord’s anger is beginning to simmer! What was Moses doing that angered God? Moses was acting as if God could not, would not, give Moses the abilities he needed to do what God was asking him to do!
At this point my meditations flashed across the centuries to me… and the Spirit began asking me about times I have done the same. Times I have said, “Go ahead, God, send someone else. Oh, I just can’t, I am not good enough… I don’t have enough time… I’d rather sit and watch a TV show… not me, God, not today…!”
When God calls God gifts to complete the task. I hear that loud and clear in my reading and meditations today.
I also hear the Spirit reminding me not to trifle with God. After all God is God, I am not! His word rules, not mine.
And so my morning went with God challenging me. Is He challenging you?
I surrender, Lord. I surrender. You are Lord and I submit to Your will. Send me, lead me, direct me… I am Yours. I will go. Amen.
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