Celebrating National “Pick on Moses Day”

“Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, 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 human beings their mouths?

Who makes them deaf or mute?

Who gives them sight or makes them blind?

Is it not I, the Lord?

Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.”

Exodus 4:10-13

 

“God, I know better than you!”

We probably would all deny saying those words, but would probably also all be as guilty as Moses was in his request to send someone else.

Our passage today would certainly be a choice scripture if we were to celebrate a national “Pick on Moses Day”.

 “Can you believe that guy, dissing God the way he did!”

But let’s be honest – who hasn’t doubted Gods’ pick – when He is pointing directly at you?

It is valuable to review the first nine verses leading up to today’s text. In them, God turns Moses’ staff into a serpent and back again and then He turns Moses hand leprous and makes it whole again. With such a supernatural demonstration of Gods’ power we can perhaps sympathize with Moses’ response.

How could he possibly represent to Pharaoh such an awesome, powerful God?

We, like Moses, need to understand that when God commissions and calls us to a task He go with us and equips us to meet the challenges we will face.  

Nowhere in that previous statement did I say everything will be easy and there won’t be challenges.

It remains a walk of faith with God.

But He does not send us into Pharaoh’s court empty-handed.

The point is this – when you are confronting ‘pharaoh’ – trust God and stop making excuses!