Today, I am reading and commenting on  Exodus 4-6.

Yesterday in chapter three when God told Moses to go to the elders of Israel, he asked God what name for God should he give them.  That seems an innocent enough question.  However, in today’s passage, Moses asks God what if the Israelites don’t believe that God spoke with him.  Then, after God gives him three signs to perform for the people, Moses complains that he is not eloquent or a good speaker.  Finally, Moses outright asks God to send someone else.  Which leads us to the conclusion that Moses did not ask any of these questions in order to get an answer.  Rather they were excuses to not undertake the mission which God had given him.  Now, except for the last two, these were good questions.  When God gives us a mission we should ask those questions, but we should do so believing that God has an answer for them.

God’s answer to Moses’ complaint about not being eloquent is one to which we should pay close attention.  God told Moses that it was He that gave people voices or made them mute.  It was He that allowed them to hear or made them deaf, and it was He who gave them sight or made them blind.  Therefore, He would give Moses the words to speak and help him say them.  God did not choose Moses because of his skills.  God gave Moses his skills because He had chosen him.  In the same way, God does not call us for tasks because we have the skills to execute the tasks.  Whatever the reason God has called us to a task, He will give us the skills to execute that task.  God calls us for tasks in order to demonstrate His power.  At the end of today’s passage, when Moses asks God why Pharaoh would listen to him, God answers, “Because I AM THE LORD.”  His answer to us when we ask Him how we will be able to accomplish the task He has given us, or why people will listen to us when we speak the message He has given us is the same.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.