"But . . . "

Moses was struggling with all four of these when God first gave him his call to leadership. He was not very mindful that He was from the line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he was part of the inheritance of the Abrahamic promise, and therefore one of the chosen race of Israel. He was just not getting it as far as who He was, whose he was, and where He came from.

In Exodus chapters 3 and 4 we find Moses in a conversation with God in which he is learning what he is destined for. He is not very confident of himself and starts to come up with excuses.

Exo 3:11:

 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” (ESV)

And again, in Exo 4:10:

 But Moses said to the LORD, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” (ESV)

God’s response to these petty objections was simply, “I will be with you . . . “

Often, we find ourselves in uncomfortable situations where we are in a crisis of belief. We clearly see what we are supposed to do but we can’t. We momentarily forget who we are in Christ, whose we are as belonging to Him, where we came from spiritually and where we are in that same sense right now. So, we forget the position that places us in. We forget the empowerment that comes with all that. Like Moses we start to make excuses why we can’t accomplish the challenge before us. But God says, “I will be with you.” God say that he will never leave us or forsake us. (Deuteronomy 31:8)

God gives us a new identify when we surrender to Jesus as Lord and Savior. It’s an identity that has clothed us with having the distinctive position as being sons and daughters of the most High God. It’s not for the purpose of being haughty and arrogant. It is for the purpose of being empowered to humbly respond to His calling whether it be to lead a great nation of people, simply sit down and talk to a skeptic about Jesus, anonymously take care of someone else’s needs, or boldly face persecution and possible death for being a follower of Jesus.

Know who you are, whose you are, where you have come from, and what you are destined for so that you can bring glory to the name of Jesus in everything you do. God will be with you!