But I Don’t Want To

Exodus 4: 12-13
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak’. But he said, ‘Oh my Lord, please send someone else. 

This has always been one of my favourite Bible stories - the Burning Bush in the Book of Exodus.  Moses sees a bush on fire, but not burning. It is God and we discover that God has a job for Moses, to free the Israelites from the Egyptians who have imprisoned them as slaves. God lays out what he wants Moses to do and instead of just saying 'yes', Moses starts to push back. He comes up with excuses of why he can’t do what God is asking of him. At every point, God listens and responds with a solution to the problem. In the end, Moses just speaks his truth and says, ‘Oh my Lord, please send someone else’.

I love the honesty in Moses - he comes up with all these excuses, but ultimately he just doesn’t want to do it. I feel like this sometimes, and I find it helpful to see that I am not alone, but that some of the ‘Bible greats’ also did not want to do what God was telling them to do. 

Now I am not comparing myself to these people, but sometimes God asks things of me, that may take me out of my comfort zone, that may challenge me and my way of thinking. At times I can feel myself resisting and coming up with excuses, before admitting I just don’t want to. But these stories show us, that they did it anyway. Moses obeyed God (in the end). And I need to trust that if God is asking something of me, even if I don’t yet know or understand the outcome, there is a good reason. And as always God promises to never leave me and that 'we’ll do this together.' 

Prayer - Dear Lord, thank you for hearing the honesty of our hearts. Help us and give us strength to do what you have called us to do.