Lessons From the Life of Moses Part 2

At the end of the forty years that Moses spent in the wilderness of Midian, herding sheep, he saw a bush that was on fire that wasn't being burnt up.  So he decided to check it out.  But suddenly, he heard the voice of God out of the bush, saying to him, 'Take off your shoes. For this is holy ground.' Then God told Moses, that  He wanted him to go to the land of Egypt, and deliver the children of Israel, as the Lord led him.  But Moses told God that he felt inadequate. But God told him that 'I AM hath me unto you.' 

   We can see that Moses' pride and self-sufficiency that he had had forty years before, was vanished. Now, he had gone to the opposite extreme. Now he thought that there was no way that he could do anything to save Israel from bondage.   If we don't have faith that God can work in our lives, it is impossible for God to work with us. Hebrews 11:6 says,"But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."  On the other hand, if we think that we have everything under control in our lives, and never feel a need for God; God can't work in our lives, either. In Christ Object Lessons p.154 says, "There is nothing so offensive to God or so dangerous to the human soul as pride and self-sufficiency. Of all sins it is the most hopeless, the most incurable." What an astonishing statement! We must not fall into either category!
   This one of the excuses Moses made, even after God gave him three signs to give to the Pharaoh, in Exodus 4:10-12,"And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?  Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say." So if we think that the Lord can't work through us, we are underestimating, and denying our Maker! Isaiah 51:12-13a, says, "I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thous shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son for man which shall be made as grass; And forgettest the Lord thy Maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth;" So if we are afraid of speaking for God, or doing anything that the Lord calls us to do, we are forgetting our beloved Savior! May always trust in our Maker, and never limit God!  And if we let Him help us, He will put the words in our mouth, right when we need them!