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\nExodus 4:10 \u00a0 <\/span>But Moses said to the LORD, \u201cOh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.\u201d Then the LORD said to him, \u201cWho has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.\u201d But he said, \u201cOh, my Lord, please send someone else.\u201d Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he said, \u201cIs there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him. And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Moses seems to be both afraid and unwilling to go as God has commissioned him to go. He has questions and thoughts about this commissioning;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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- \u201cWho am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?\u201d<\/li>\n
- \u201cIf I come to the people of Israel and say to them, \u2018The God of your fathers has sent me to you,\u2019 and they ask me, \u2018What is his name?\u2019 what shall I say to them?\u201d<\/li>\n
- \u201cBut behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, \u2018The LORD did not appear to you.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n
- \u201cOh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.<\/li>\n
- \u201cOh, my Lord, please send someone else.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Do we harden our hearts to the whispers from the Holy Spirit of God? Do we say, \u201chere am I, send me\u201d, and deep down have no commitment to do what we are asked to do? Do we neglect time in His Word so we will not be spurred on, or have to deny and reject the Holy Spirit of God speaking to our hearts and minds? Do we become complacent in things of God so we neither get convicted of sin in our lives or be directed to do or say something for the Kingdom of God?<\/p>\n
I fear we are more like Moses than like those who readily GO as commissioned.\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t speak well. I don\u2019t think fast. My vocabulary is weak. My understanding, at times, is flawed. I am not believable. I am not gifted for the task given. I am afraid of what others will think or say. Maybe if I close my eyes and plug my ears these quiet whispers from the Holy Spirit of God leading, guiding, and directing me to speak and do what I am hesitant to do, will go away.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
Let our time in His Word grow our faith and willingness to say and do what the Holy Spirit of God is speaking into our hearts and minds be seared into our souls in an ever-growing and never-ceasing God-honoring and glorifying life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Exodus 4:10 \u00a0 But Moses said to the LORD, \u201cOh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.\u201d Then the LORD said to him, \u201cWho has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or … Continue reading “41.c. \u201cOh, my Lord, please send someone else.\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5417,1400,378,8016,16352,76,4,4350,13492,796,219,5912,5289,244,8014,239,13493,4036,8100,400,16353,310],"class_list":["post-160455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-aaron","tag-anger","tag-blind","tag-deaf","tag-eloqent","tag-god","tag-heart","tag-kindled","tag-levite","tag-lord","tag-moses","tag-mute","tag-seeing","tag-signs","tag-slow-of-speech","tag-speak","tag-speak-well","tag-spoken","tag-staff","tag-teach","tag-therefore-go","tag-tongue"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160521,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160455\/revisions\/160521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}