Sunday, June 18, 2006

No excuse

I was thinking about what I wrote in the previous post and this passage came to mind:

Exodus 4
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."

Moses gave God an excuse, essentially saying that he was not good enough to do what God asked him to do. God’s response was that He is good enough to accomplish the work through Moses. If God calls us to do something He will give us what we need to accomplish the task to which we are called.