I'm A Nobody (Ex. 3:11-12)

3/7/2008 8:52 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time      Focus:  Reason # 1:  I’m a nobody

Bible Reading & Meditation               Reference:  Exodus 3:11-12

          Message of the verses:  Moses gave God five reasons why He should not send him to rescue Israel from Egypt, and this is the first reason:  I am a nobody. 

          “11 ¶  But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?"

12  And He said, "Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.’”

          As I try and look at this story of Moses in a new and fresh way I wonder what Moses was thinking about as far as whether or not God would use him to rescue Israel during those forty years of taking care of sheep.  I also wonder in what year did Moses and his wife have their children, was it when Moses first got there or was it latter on in their married life?  The reason I bring these question up may have to do with the reasons why Moses was balking at God’s request for Moses to go to Egypt and rescue Israel.  He may have thought that he was their deliverer when he left Egypt but after living forty years in another country and having a wife and family he may have thought that he just did not want to leave.

          Another thing that I marvel about here is the patience of God towards Moses and that may have had to do with the situation Moses was in, but God surely was patient with Moses throughout this first part of Moses’ calling. 

          Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I do not know at what point in Moses’ life that he became a true believer in God, for he surely did not have too much of a chance to know God being raised where he was raised and so this encounter with God at the burning bush may have been when he began to believe in God for the first time, and again it may have happened earlier in his life.  The reason I ask this is because I am trying to figure out why Moses was so opposed to go and do what God was instructing him to do.

          I know disobedience to God for me, a person who has been saved for over thirty years, is certainly not what I should be doing, and believe me when I say that I have disobeyed God, but am very thankful for His grace and mercy, and for His forgiveness.

My Steps of Faith for Today:  To make sure that my safety nets are back in place.

Memory verses for the week:                    2Cor. 112:9-10

9.   And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power if perfected in weakness.”  Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weakness, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

10.                        Therefore I am well content with weakness, with insults, with distress, with persecutions, with difficulties for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Recent memory verses:           Philippians 1:9-11

9.   And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,

10.                        so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;

11.  having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.