Morning Devotional

November 6, 2004
"Who Am I?"

by Don Emmitte

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When the LORD saw that he had caught Moses' attention, God called to him from the bush, "Moses! Moses!" "Here I am!" Moses replied. "Do not come any closer," God told him. "Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground." Then he said, "I am the God of your ancestors--the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." When Moses heard this, he hid his face in his hands because he was afraid to look at God. Then the LORD told him, "You can be sure I have seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries for deliverance from their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. So I have come to rescue them from the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own good and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey--the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites live. The cries of the people of Israel have reached me, and I have seen how the Egyptians have oppressed them with heavy tasks. Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You will lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt." "But who am I to appear before Pharaoh?" Moses asked God. "How can you expect me to lead the Israelites out of Egypt?" (Exodus 3:4-11 NLT).

Throughout the Bible, men were confronted with a valid quandary. When they had considered who God is, and what God had done, they were forced to then consider who they are in light of who God is. Today, thousands of years later, you and I are faced with the same questions.

God had called out to Moses through the burning bush experience. Moses had such a powerful testimony of God’s grace including the time his mother placed him in a basket to hide him from Pharaoh’s wrath to the time of hiding because he was a known murderer. We can see, looking at the totality of Moses’ life how God had prepared him for service, but in the midst of the wilderness, Moses could only question God’s plan. Why would God call an outcast to a position of such honor that required so much leadership ability? Moses had never demonstrated that kind of leadership before.

God often calls the unlikely to tasks of greatness.

Please remember that principle. If you will faithfully serve Christ, there will be times in your life when God will ask to do something that will seem to you to be more difficult than what you can handle. If God is the One calling you, however, He will be the One to equip you for these works of greatness. Doing the impossible through you will give God the greatest glory.

Moses was humbled, actually even scared, that God would call him to such an awesome task. He was willing, after God’s encouragement, to step forward and do the work God had called him to do. When God calls you, will He find you as willing?