Stress Test Devotional May 4
May 04, 2024
EXODUS 3:7-11 | 7 Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Now go, I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
What is your attitude, your basic approach to commitment? Some of us are commitment adverse, we prefer to keep all our options open and resist longer term involvements in which we will need to spend lots of time and energy. Instead, we try to remain free agents. Some of us are reckless—we impetuously leap toward commitments without due consideration and live with regret. But some of us are cautious with commitment, carefully considering before seriously committing.
Moses was cautious with commitment. God lays out a task which involves a vast change in the historical landscape—He intends to force the Egyptian Pharaoh to release all his Hebrew slaves. Unprecedented and utterly without parallel, this goal must have seemed impossible to Moses. Further, it meant this wanted murderer would have to return to face the Egyptian royal family he had rejected and disdained. He found the prospect daunting and expressed doubts about his own suitability.
What is your commitment pattern vis a vis people, projects, churches?
