Navigating New Beginnings
Exodus 4:1 (NKJV)
“Then Moses answered and said, “But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’
Exodus 4:1 (NKJV)
As we listen in on this conversation between Moses and God, Moses had just been given his calling and purpose, God had revealed to him the plan for his life. Moses’s response reminded me of my own when I was faced with navigating new beginnings. Moses was unsure he was the right person for the job and made excuses in hope that such a great call would pass him by. He knew returning to Egypt would be complicated. He knew of all the things and people he would have to face, including His countrymen, so he tried to get out, but God wouldn’t let him. Like a good father, He was patient, even in anger, and spoke sense into him.
Years ago when I felt the call of God on my life, I had every excuse why I wasn’t the right person for such a call: I don’t speak well, I’m not sociable, not Godly enough, not knowledgeable enough, hadn’t done enough for God, too poor, too insignificant, too ugly and such like. However, regardless of my excuses, God wouldn’t let me go, He stuck with me and spoke some sense into me, and now today I humbly serve.
My encouragement for you today is this, when God calls you to a new beginning, it is not because He cannot find anyone else, it is not because He doesn’t know of your flaws or weaknesses. No, He calls you because out of everyone else he puts His trust in you: He knows you (all the flaws and mistakes) and to Him, no one else can do it like you. As a matter of fact, you were made for just that.
If you don’t have faith in yourself or your abilities, then at least have faith in God’s faith in you.
Read: Exodus 4:1-17; Ezekiel 36:11
Bible Reading Guide: Psalms 112; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:1-7; Isaiah 63; Isaiah 64; Isaiah 65:1-16
