Sunday, February 1, 2009

Silly Moses

1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up."
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am."
7 The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.

10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."
11 But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"

Exodus 3: 1-4, 7 & 10 (NIV)

God had just appeared to Moses and spoken to him audibly and told him how He was going to use him to free the Israelites and yet Moses was actually concerned about his own qualifications to accomplish such a task

Hello! God himself just spoke to you, but you don't think He's capable of using you to free the Israelites, oh ye of little faith!

The silliest thing is that I can see this so clearly in Moses life and yet I am so often guilty of the same faithless thoughts.

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