Exodus 3:11 – And Moses said unto God, “Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt.”
Moses is having his first, ever conversation with God. At this moment he is not fully aware of God’s character but he is drawn to his mystique. Maybe it was the bush that was on fire yet not consumed. Maybe it was how God described himself as a deliverer, or maybe it was the directness and certainty in which God spoke when he declared a nation would be set free from oppression and bondage through Moses. Whatever it was, that mystique soon had Moses stuck in disbelief. Every insecurity and every feeling of inadequacy was raging within him. Clearly this was too much for him to conceive. What Moses would soon come to understand, and what we must embrace, is that the assignment isn’t too big for us because the assignment is not about us. We like to weigh our feebleness to God’s superiority and then wonder if we have faith. Such an approach to faith is a wasted venture. Your ability pails in comparison to God’s. Our inadequacies simply reveal that we don’t have enough apart from God to do what God is calling us to do. We know in Christ we lack no good thing. In Christ, we live, we move, we have our being. In Christ, we are more than conquerors. In Christ, we were created for good works. In Christ, every promise of God is yes and amen. Feelings of insecurity or inadequacy are not determinants of future success. Asking, “Who am I?” is really an expression of humility that God can use to cement our trust in him.
With Sincerity 