Today’s passage is Exodus 3:13-22. After saying to God that he wasn’t the one to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, Moses continues with another objection. He wants to know God’s name so the Israelites will listen to him. God says his name is I AM and tells Moses to meet the leaders and say that God has heard their cries and sent Moses to lead them to Canaan. Then they are to meet Pharaoh with their request, but God says Pharaoh will refuse so that God can strike Egypt. Every woman is to ask her Egyptian neighbor for gold, silver and clothing so they will not leave empty-handed.
Why does Moses want to know God’s name?
Why does God give Moses a plan of action that he tells Moses will fail?
“So I will stretch out my hand”(20)
Last night, my daughter accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior, but she needs more teaching about God to deepen her understanding.
She is ignorant of God’s story in the Bible.
She doesn’t know the hidden will of God acting in and through us.
Neither do I most of the time.
It’s after the fact that I’m able to discern something of the Lord’s will in my life.
Moses was the same.
In verse 11 he asked, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
In today’s passage, God helps him by telling him what will happen; namely, that Pharaoh won’t let the Israelites leave and God wants him to refuse so that everyone will see God’s power when he inflicts punishment on the Egyptians.
Why does God want events to unfold that way?
Moses doesn’t know and neither do I.
It’s sufficient to say that it’s God’s will.
Why does God want to use Moses as his instrument?
Again, Moses doesn’t know. In fact, he’d rather not be that instrument, as he indicated in verse 11. But it doesn’t matter. It’s God’s will.
I didn’t particularly want to be the instrument of God’s will bringing my daughter to salvation.
I wanted her to accept Jesus as her Lord so I could ultimately meet her in Heaven.
But I was shy about being the direct instrument of that.
I had hoped for many years that someone in her hometown would be God’s instrument. I prayed for that.
But God brought her to Korea to live with me … for what? For salvation, that’s what. God’s hidden will.
Like Moses, I’m being reluctant to present the gospel to my daughter.
Not only my daughter, but my whole family.
Only my sister and one daughter are saved.
My mother continues to turn away as does my son.
How much more time will God grant me to present the gospel?
Although he could do it himself, he wants me to do it, just as he wanted Moses to go to the Israelite elders and then Pharaoh.
Why me? Because it’s God’s will. My task is to obey and trust that God’s word to Moses#8212;“I will certainly be with you”(12)#8212;will also be true for me.
Application: to preach the gospel to my daughter every day to deepen her understanding and acceptance of Jesus.
Lord, show me the reason of my reluctance, the source of my fear in presenting you to my family.
