"He did not ask if you were ready are not...He just said GO!"

Exodus 3:1-4:17

To be courageous is to act in the presence of fear but to be a coward is to lack the courage to do or endure a dangerous or unpleasant thing. Which one are you?

God spoke to Moses through a burning bush on top of a mountain. It is common for bushes to catch fire on mountains because they are so high in elevation it just something Moses was use to seeing. But the bush Moses saw caught his eye because although it was burning the bush itself was not burnt. And all of a sudden God spoke (Exodus 3:1-4).

God told Moses that the misery of Israel had reached its peak and it was time for action (Exodus 3:5-7). In verse 8 God says " I have come down to deliver them" and in verse 10 God says "I will send you". God was calling Moses a tool and not the deliver. Moses would be used by God to declare to the Egyptians their hostile acts towards His people had come to an end. But God never asked Moses if he was ready, He never asked Moses for his qualifications, and he never asked Moses if he thought he could do it. He just told Moses to go.

If you read through chapter three and into chapter four in Exodus Moses gives God ever excuse of why he was the wrong choice. Moses said he was a nobody (Exodus 3:11) but God told Moses that Somebody (meaning God) was going with him (Exodus 3:12). Moses told God that the Israelites would not believe him but God told Moses to tell the Israelites that God Himself was sending him (Exodus 3:13-15). Moses told God that he stutters but God told Moses He would give him the words to say and someone to speak for him as well (Exodus 4:10-17).

We often give God a reason why we can't but God will always show us that with Him we can. It is easy to back away in fear and doubt because of our own limitations but that is a cowards death. Remember God said that He was going deliver His people (Exodus 3:8) and Moses was merely the tool (Exodus 3:10). The hammer does not build the house, alone by its self it is a useless tool. But in the hand of a skilled carpenter miraculous things can happen.

Yes you are not qualified, uneducated, not good enough, or you lack the required skill. But God is not looking at your lack there of He is looking at your willingness to serve. He is looking at your heart, He just wants to hear you say, "Hear I am Lord send me!" All He wants is a willing tool. So we have to lay aside every excuse about why we can't and believe that God can. You are coward alone but with the Lord's strength you are courageous.

I love Moses's honesty before the Lord and I am glad the Lord still used Moses to do His Will despite Moses' fear. Because many of us want to run like Moses and say "no one will believe me" because we don't believe in ourselves. But God never asks us if we believe in ourselves He only requires us to believe in Him! Because in our on strength we can do nothing but in Him we can do anything (that is in His Will) if we believe (Mark 9:23).

So what are you waiting for? What excuses are you giving God today? Are you a coward or will you be courageous and do His Will? Stay focused you can do this!

"In His JOY!"