February 14, 2022 - Exodus 4-6

When I was a younger Pastor, I would often doubt myself, wondering if I could actually speak to a large group of people. I had been told at one point that I was a small church Pastor and that is all I would ever be. I have come to realize that God's Word is much more powerful than the spoken words of others!

Moses was God's chosen spokesperson to represent Him before Pharoah. He had been shown the power and had heard the voice of God as few men had ever seen before. Yet the past of his life, caused him to doubt, and to ask God to send a different representative before Pharoah and the people of Israel.

Moses had many excuses for God. He knew his past consisted of a quick temper which led to murder. He had run away instead of facing the repercussions in Egypt. He left his family to suffer in captivity for forty years. Regardless of the reasons, Moses felt inadequate and incompetent to be God's courier.

Being called and being prepared are very different phases of life and ministry. God often calls us to a task and then begins the process of training and developing us to accomplish His plan. For Moses, it meant seeing and being a part of God's miraculous works. He witnessed his wooden staff change to a serpent and his hand becoming leprous and then restored. Together with his brother as his partner, they stood before Pharoah where Moses had once stood as a child. God used each phase in his life to train and prepare Moses.

While his call was to be obeyed, training was paramount for God's work to be accomplished. Moses' preparatory lessons in the desert were necessary to endure the difficult days of questioning by Jewish leadership and Pharoah's rejection of God's commands. Even after the desert school, Moses hesitated and needed God's assurance to continue to speak to Israel and Pharoah.

Each of us are placed in a school of God's training to refine and expand areas of our understanding and belief in God. If we doubt as Moses did, God will give us reassurance through His Word that He is in control in each circumstance. "I am the Lord. Speak to Pharoah, king of Egypt all that I say to you" (Exodus 6:29).