Exodus 4

I was reading through the beginning of Exodus today and the story of Moses. It is a very interesting story to say the least. It is one of those stories that just screams 'God's ways must be higher than our ways'. Take Moses for example...He was a murderer who hid his victim in the sand and yet God used him to bring the Israelites out of slavery.

I also think it screams another message as well. As a lot of you may know, in Exodus 3 God speaks to Moses through a burning bush. They have quite the conversation and God gives Moses the mission of saving His people. Now I don't know about you, but having the experience of conversing with a "burning bush" would hopefully be a life changing moment, especially having an audible voice tell me He was God.

The interesting part is in the next chapter. In Exodus 4 they are continuing the conversation only Moses begins to tell God that He doesn't know if He can do the job. He comes up with the excuse that no one is going to believe Him. When God gives him signs and tools to show people, he then turns his excuse to the fact that he's not a good public speaker.

It amazes me how much people really haven't change in thousands of years. We are still dealing with the same things. Many of us are still insecure...telling God we can't do something because "this is who I am." We still make excuses and get scared that someones not going to like what we have to say.

It would be so easy to point the finger at Moses and say "How could you not believe?" "Didn't God just prove himself to you?" Unfortunately, if we are honest, many of us are the same way. Like I shared last week, God does miraculous things in our lives all the time and yet we question what He asks us to do. We try to come up with excuses as to why we are not good enough.

In verse 14, it says that God's anger burned toward Moses for still not believing. The cool part though, is even in the midst of being angry with him, God gave him yet another chance, and another tool to use.

I wonder how many times God has been angry with me for making excuses. Am I still making excuses? Why?