The Lord Be With You Today!
Exodus 4:10
Moses said to the Lord, "Pardon your servant, Lord.
(This utterance in the Hebrew speaks
of a forceful urgency and serious earnestness
because Moses is about to yet again present another resistance
to what the Lord is calling him to do.
Like Moses, we, too, often offer all kinds
of rationalizations and justifications and excuses
as to why the Lord is really mistaken in His commands
or in His word to us or in the way we see His plan unfolding
when we are dissatisfied or uncomfortable
with what we see before us.)
I have never been eloquent, neither in the past
nor since you have spoken to your servant.
I am slow of speech and tongue."
(The Hebrew indicates Moses was not very articulate
and perhaps had difficulty uttering what he wanted to say.
Knowing that reality, he didn't feel
he was a worthy representative of the Lord
or the one to speak to the royalty in Egypt or to God's people.
He didn't feel he would be persuasive enough to accomplish his task.
Although the Lord had shown Moses breath-taking signs of His power,
his inability to speak well remained to Moses
a very present impediment to that which the Lord was calling Moses.
We can relate both to Moses' concern about finding the right words,
as well as speaking them once we find them,
as well as being a fit representative for the Lord.
We can also see, like Moses, places where we have seen the Lord
mightily at work, enacting miraculous deeds in our and others' lives,
At the same time, we can also often point to other needs or concerns
where we have not seen the Lord intervene in ways we had hoped.
Then, like Moses, our continued need is to voice our concerns.
When we do, like Moses' words show us,
we see that our focus remains on us and our abilities
rather than on the Lord and on what He has pronounced over us
and on what He has determined He wants us to accomplish through us.
Today, the Lord reminds us that His strength and presence
are what undergird us and that we accomplish His purposes
not through our own strength, but only through Him.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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