Exodus 2:11-15 NIV
[11] One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. [12] Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. [13] The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?” [14] The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.” [15] When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
Moses now living in Pharaoh’s own house has never forgotten his own people. He even tries to save one of them but it backfires on him because the one he tried to save throws it back in his face and then Pharaoh finds out and tries to kill Moses. So what exactly did Moses do?
He saw an Egyptian beating one of the Hebrews and so he killed the Egyptian. The next day Moses saw two Hebrews fighting and when he questioned the one in the wrong, the man threw in his face what he had done to the Egyptian the previous day. So, fear entered Moses that what he done had become known. Then what happened? Sure enough Pharaoh finds out and tries to kill him. So Moses flees Egypt and goes to Midian.
Now, God comes to Moses in the burning bush and calls him, but Moses asks God the very same question the Hebrew slave asked him “who am I to do this?” It had been several years when Moses fled Egypt, yet that same question had caused doubt in him and stayed with him all those years.
Think about this. Moses was talking to God. God was speaking back to Moses and telling him that He was chosen by God, yet Moses is like “who am I to do these things?” This still happens to us today.
The enemy will use a simple phrase from our past in order to keep us from our future. Moses missed out on the priesthood coming through his line. He missed out on performing the miracles before Pharaoh in Egypt. Moses even missed out on a healing touch for his tongue, all because one man who was in the wrong lashed out on him when he was being corrected.
Never let the enemy use someone else to keep you from your call. God has called each and every one of us to a specific job. The enemy knows this, so he plants seeds of doubt, fear, anger, bitterness, etc. in our minds years in advance in order to control us. In order to keep us from our call. In order so that when God finally calls us, we’ll have so much doubt, we won’t be able to trust God.
So, what do we do? We don’t go in our own strength but in the strength of the LORD. When God calls you, He doesn’t send you on your own. He sends you in His Spirit. He sends you in His strength. Matter-a-fact He Himself goes before you. So what do you have to lose?
Fear LORD, I’m sorry for every time you have called me and I have given up. I’m sorry for every time I have slowed someone else’s words and opinions, dictate my life. Please forgive me and give me the strength to overcome. Please give me another opportunity to do Your work and fulfill the call You have on my life. In Jesus’ name, I pray, amen.