Saturday, August 6, 2016

Exodus 3

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” v.11

Read chapter 3
"Who am I?" A thought of unworthiness by one of the most amazing men. Yet also a thought of humbleness. Moses being the most fit man for this still knows his wickedness as a chase from knowing more of God and of himself. When he first thought he could save his people, he failed and fled. Now forty years later at the age of eighty, he's called to deliver this people with would seem like a disqualification to most on top of the change of life he'd lived for the past forty years as a shepherd and stranger to his brethren and they wisdom and ways of the Egyptians no more practiced. Yet he also had a huge reason why he was best for this job: Egyptian training and learning, familiarity with eh courts, knowledge of both languages and nations. Ultimately we shouldn't ask the question who's more capable for the task, God calls one to say YES as God chooses and directs. "So detective are the strongest graces and best duties of the most eminent saints" (Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary). Where do you find yourself incompetent for the tasks God calls you too? And how do you respond?

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