"Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead My people Israel out of Egypt."
Exodus 3:10 NLT
'You have got to be joking!' I can hear Moses saying to God. I mean, one minute he had been minding his own business tending to his sheep, the next, a burning bush that spoke and then, to finish it off, a commission to go to Pharaoh and ask him to release the Israelites. Can you imagine if that had happened to you? Absolutely bizarre! However, God was serious about it. Moses was His man for the job.
From thereon, Moses came out with all the excuses he could think of: 'Who am I, I'm just a murderer?' 'I'm inadequate, I can't speak properly because I get tongue-tied'. 'Lord, send someone else - PLEASE!' 'But God said, 'Nope, you're going.' God then asked Him, 'What is that in your hand?' Moses replied that it was his staff, so God went on to to describe certain signs of power with the staff that Moses could perform to show Pharaoh that the God he served was, who He said He was - I Am.
Today, it would probably be equivalent to going to Kim Jong-Un, the leader in North Korea and asking that he release all of the prisoners there. What kind of reception do you think you would get? Now you know how Moses must have felt about this task. It was a natural thing for Moses to feel this way; let us not forget that he had murdered an Egyptian there around about 50 years earlier, now at the age of 80, it could be certain death if anyone recognised him.
Moses was pushing his luck here because God started to become angry V14, with his hesitations but to relieve Moses’ anxieties, God told him that he could take his brother Aaron with him to speak on his behalf.
Sometimes God uses ordinary things to perform extraordinary tasks. What could you place in God's hand so He could help you to perform great things? How about your voice, could you preach the Word in church, on street corners or in rallies? What about placing your pen in God's hand so that He could help you become an anointed writer or poet? You could give Him your guitar, violin, saxophone or any other instrument so that He could open the door for you to become a great musician or writer. You may be good with carpentry, bricklaying or any other thing. Placed in God''s hand, He could open wide the necessary doors for this to happen. Just think, He may be calling you to be a Pastor, Vicar or an Evangelist, you just need to place this in God's hand and let Him do the rest.
Don't ever be scared of what God is leading you into - apprehensive yes, but not in fear. What God has for you is tremendously exciting, the sort of experience that will give you a great buzz. Don't miss out on it at all.
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