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

Today, I tried recording my reading of the passage before I began writing.  Previously, I had recorded my reading of the passage after I finished writing down my thoughts.  I decided to change it up because on several days I had additional thoughts about the passage while I was reading it with no time to put them into this.  Oh, I just realized that I had not announced on here that I have started recording my daily reading and thoughts and publishing those videos on Youtube.  So, feel free to check it out and tell me what you think.

This passage illustrates something which I heard a speaker say some years back, “If you think that you have the skills to accomplish the ministry to which God has called you, that is NOT the ministry to which God has called you.”  Moses felt like he was unqualified to do what God that to which God was calling him.  His attempts to convince God that he was the wrong person began in yesterday’s passage when he asked, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?”  In today’s passage, Moses brings objections to being the one to undertake this task for God.  First, he says that the people of Israel will not believe that God has sent him.  I am sure that he was harkening back to the Israelite who asked him, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us?”  In any case, God answered that objection by giving Moses signs which he was commanded to perform to illustrate to the people of Israel that God had sent him.  Then Moses brought out what he thought was the key objection to God sending him, his lack of public speaking ability, or even ability to speak eloquently one-on-one.  We often have similar objections when God calls us to a ministry.  Our objection being, “I don’t have the skills/gifts to do that.”  Here is God’s answer to Moses when he said that he did not have the oratorical skills necessary for the ministry to which God was calling him, “Who has made man’s mouth? …Is it not I, the Lord? Now there go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak!”  God did not call Moses to lead His people out of Israel because Moses had the skills to do that to which God was calling him.  God was going to give Moses the ability to do what He was calling him to do.  God called Moses in order to demonstrate His power to Pharaoh, and to the Israelites.  In the same way, God does not call us to a ministry, to a task, which WE can accomplish by our own ability and power.  He calls us to do things which will demonstrate His power to us and to those to whom He has sent us.

As a final note, after God dismissed Moses’ final objection, Moses said what was really bothering him.  He didn’t want to do it and asked God to send someone else.  This made God angry.  But I want to note something we often miss.  God was already sending Aaron to meet Moses.  God had already started Aaron on his way to meet with Moses (check the verb tense in chapter 4 verse 14, “Behold, he is coming out to meet you,…”).  So, when God calls us to a task, he will provide us with the support we need to accomplish the task.

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