Moses Said To God "I'm Not a Fluent Speaker (Ex. 4:10-12)

3/11/2008 8:23 PM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time   Focus:  Moses said, “I’m not a fluent speaker.

Bible Reading & Meditation                     Reference:  Exodus 4:10-12

            Message of the verses:  “10 ¶  Then Moses said to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."  11  The LORD said to him, "Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?  12  "Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say.’”

            I wonder what it was that has happened to Moses since he left Egypt some forty years earlier.  When Moses left Egypt it seems that he was trying to accomplish in the flesh what God now wants to do with him in the Spirit and it may be that since he failed doing it in the flesh that he does not even want to go and do this in the power of God. 

            This is excuse number four for Moses and there is one excuse that he didn’t use and that was that he was eighty years old.

            A couple of quotes from Dr. Wiersbe’s book:  “The God who made us is able to use the gifts and abilities He’s given us to accomplish the tasks He assigns to us.”          

            “Humility isn’t thinking poorly of ourselves; it’s simply not thinking of ourselves at all but making God everything.  The humble servant thinks only of God’s will and God’s glory, not his or her own inadequacy, success, or failure.  Moses was clothing his pride and unbelief in a hollow confession of weakness.”

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  These two quotes from Dr. Wiersbe’s book kind of step on my toes a bit.  There are times when I think poorly of myself and believe it is humility, but it is not, and there are times when I try and do things in the flesh, helping God out a bit and not using the recourses God has given me, and that is the Holy Spirit.

My Steps of Faith for Today:  Trust the Lord wholly for my future for if He save me, an undeserved sinner who was heading for hell then He can take care of all things in my life.