Exodus 4:13-17 But Moses said, "Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else." (Because the Lord had given him sign after sign, both to encourage him and to empower him in the mission to which he was being called, we could easily criticize Moses for His continued reluctance to accept the Lord's call for him to confront Pharaoh and to lead His people out of Egypt. Moses deserves credit for honestly and openly revealing his heart to the Lord, even if what he revealed were doubts and uncertainties. How like Moses we are today, still resisting to fully engage in that to which the Lord calls us, and how unlike Moses we are in honestly laying out our concerns before the Lord and talking to Him frankly about our concerns and fears and preferences. Instead, we keep quiet, pretending to ourselves that we are fully engaged in the Lord's call on our lives, watering down the truths the Lord trumpets forth in His Word, and playing at walking out our faith and the call He has put on our lives. Like Moses, we need to engage truthfully with the Lord and to speak to Him out of the deep places of our hearts where lie fear and rebellion and hurt and brokenness so that the Lord is able to communicate to us, as He did with Moses, that He is the answer to all our needs and concerns.)
