‘So NOW, GO’. Exodus 3:10a
That’s a very short statement by God to Moses, to Deliver the nation of Israel. Go Now Moses and do it!
Mose’s response, “Who am I that I should GO to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” Moses understood the Call but he was overawed by the enormity of what God was asking him to do. So he questioned God, What If?
There’s an old saying, ‘If we can do something in our own strength, then it’s not from God’. A true Call from God will usually take us beyond our ability and therefore can appear daunting to us. It will require us to step out in Faith, exercise our Faith and that’s usually challenging for us.
12 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 (all of you) will worship God on this mountain.’ Exodus 3
God sought to reassure Moses, ‘I will be with you. When you have brought the people out of Egypt’. In God’s eyes it was already done, but Moses could only see the mountain, never mind worshiping there.
13 Moses said to God, ‘SUPPOSE I GO to the Israelites and say to them, “The God of your fathers has sent me to you,” and they ask me, “What is his name?” Then what shall I tell them?’ Exodus 3
Moses was still asking questions and was unsure about going forward with this. Remember Moses had been tending sheep in the desert for years, all thought of Delivering Israel from Pharaoh had long since vanished. He was in the desert, minding the sheep and suddenly his whole future was being turned upside down by an encounter with the voice of God from a bush.
God replied to Moses’ question, how he should answer the Israelites.
16 ‘Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, “The Lord, the God of your fathers – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. 17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites – A LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY.” (A big improvement from Egypt – the land of the slave master’s whip)
18 ‘The elders of Israel will listen to you. (God’s Promise that His people would receive Moses)
It’s interesting to read the account of Moses in Hebrews 11, the gallery of the Faith Heroes in the Bible – there is no mention of Moses’ uncertainty, only good things are spoken.
24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 25 He chose to be ill-treated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He regarded disgrace for THE SAKE OF CHRIST as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. 27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. 28 By faith he kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. Hebrews 11
Moses staggered at God’s Call on his life and showed much uncertainty, but God RECORDS ONLY THE GOOD ABOUT HIM. The same God calls each of us to come and be involved in His Plan for us and those around us. Take up His Call and you too will only be rewarded for the good that He’ll do through you.
God bless and keep you today.