Stress Test Devotional April 27
April 27, 2024
EXODUS 4:11-15 | 11 Then the Lord said to him, “Who gives speech to mortals? Who makes them mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you are to speak.” 13 But he said, “O my Lord, please send someone else.” 14 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, “What of your brother Aaron, the Levite? I know that he can speak well; even now he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you his heart will be glad. 15 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 what you shall do.
Caution and care in commitment is a virtue, but excessive caution is a vice. No one, no matter how gifted, has the right resume to free the Hebrews from Egypt! God is the ultimate Human Resource Manager, and knows us better than we know ourselves. He doesn’t call us to tasks without equipping us and situating us so that we have the right support. He promises Moses that He will guide his speech and give him great and truthful content to share. He taps Aaron to do public presentations, turning a solo act into a duet, a lonely leader role into a tag-team. Humility or awareness of the size of a job and the limits of our own ability, is a good trait in a leader. Skepticism about what God can do with a willing and imperfect person, is a bad trait. God used Moses mightily and can use us too!
Do you ever let humility become skepticism or fear?
