Unlimited - Countdown Day 7

So Moses is this ordinary guy, right? And God appears to him through a burning bush and calls him by name. He goes on to tell him that he will be used as God's mouthpiece to the Egyptians, who are enslaving the Jews. That he is to go to Pharoh, himself, and tell this powerful king to release his people. Moses replies: "What if they don't believe me, God? What if they don't listen to me? After all, I'm not a very good speaker. I'm not very eloquent. My tongue gets tied all the time. I stutter and stammer. Can you please just send someone else?"

Don't we find ourselves doing this in the face of God's call in our lives? I certainly do. We read or hear what Christ calls us to and we write it off as metaphor. "Certainly you can't mean that, Lord!?! That's just asking too much! I'm only human, after all!" We feel like we might be hearing God's call for us, but our first thought is to the umpteen excuses we can make for not following; or for not even listening further. Maybe we let shame get in the way -- "why would God want to use me?"

God doesn't live in those limits, and He isn't concerned with our limits. He likes to color outside the lines, and that kind of freaks us out because it messes with our expectations. But His concern is the redemption and deliverance of his people. For some reason His method for going about the business of redemption and deliverance is through His people. Moses was made into an agent of God's redemption and deliverance. And there is redemption and deliverance for him in this personal transformation. As the story continues, his insecurities seem to vanish. He speaks with great confidence before the leader of a powerful civilization. He becomes the person God already knew him to be, while he was still proclaiming his inadequacies at the burning bush. One who is redeemed becomes an agent of redemption.

God desires to redeem this world and this community. Though I haven't seen any flaming shrubbery, I think He is very clearly calling us to that task at Fellowship of Memorial. He already knows our shortcomings, so there's probably no use hiding behind them or offering them up in place of ourselves. How then will we respond?

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Pray that our teachers would hear God's Spirit and faithfully teach God's word. Hebrews 13:7