Poor Moses!  He was brave when He needed to be.   He himself escaped from Egypt when he had committed murder and killed an Egyptian who was beating a Jew.  The Jewish people were enslaved in Egypt and were now part of the thousands of slaves who were building the hundreds of tombs, palaces and pyramids.  

He managed to escape and brave the desert to reach the land of Midian.  He had taken a wife, was a shepherd and had a good life.  However, deep within his soul there was a restlessness…anxiety.  He tried to forget but he simply could not.  His people were suffering at the hands of a new Pharoah.  He was happy in Midian so why was his spirit uneasy?  His father-in-law was a high priest, he had married one of his daughters and had a relatively easy life.

His brother, Aaron and sister, Miriam, were still in Egypt.  He had been adopted, through miraculous circumstances, into the Egyptian household.  The daughter of the Pharoah had found him in a basket floating on the Nile. She knew he was a Jew, but that didn’t matter.  She viewed him as a gift from the river god.  He became a prince of Egypt. 

Now, God was calling him to do something that he didn’t feel qualified to do.  Can you feel his anxiety as the Lord told him that he was to return to Egypt and tell the Pharaoh to release the Hebrews from bondage? He had all sorts of excuses.

“Oh Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant.  I am slow of speech and tongue. “(Exodus 4:10)  

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, God could have given Moses and eloquent tongue.  But He didn’t!

                         Instead, God sent Moses back to Egypt with all his weaknesses. 

The apostle Paul felt he could do better with his ministry, if God would just remove, “my thorn in the flesh.” As strange as it might seem God told him, “My power is made perfect in weakness.” Upon hearing that, the apostle responded.  “I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of the Messiah may rest upon me.  (2 Cor 12: 9-10)

We have all sorts of excuses as well.   We would be a better disciple if only……..( add your excuses here!!)

However, we must equip ourselves. We must be ready to give an answer as to why we are Believers, and Disciples of a Jewish Messiah.   Being Jewish, is not acceptable.  It never has been and never will be.  If that is so, then you must find confidence in accepting that the Jewish Jesus can do what you and I cannot.

Since our beliefs are based on the Bible, from beginning to end, then we must also realize that we are simply unable to keep God’s commandants perfectly.  Therefore, there is only One who was able to do that.  You know His name!

So, with all our weaknesses, and foibles, we must put on the whole armor of God, as Paul commands his readers.  (Ephesians 6:10) Be prepared to answer those who question why you believe. 

           Times of testing are upon us. 

                                  Who, Me?     Yes, You!!!