God's Prophet

    I have often thought that the way that God dealt with Moses might just be the way he deals with every called servant. Moses wanted to be God's leader; but when he was finally made ready to be God's prophet, he did not want the job! Moses believed God had raised him up to deliver Israel from Egypt. He was a strong, educated, popular man; and when he saw the Egyptian smiting the Israelite, he assumed that the time had come for him to act. Moses had many natural gifts; but he needed patience, wisdom, humility, and grace; God's gifts, to do God's work. Gadsby said, “God sent Moses forty years to college in the desert to qualify him for the ministry of God. After Moses had been forty years in the wilderness, he did not volunteer so quickly nor so zealously.” It was a different Moses who said, “Lord, send by whom thou wilt, but I am slow of speech; I am not eloquent.” He did not talk this way forty years earlier. He was anxious to be a prophet of God; but now that the Lord has equipped and qualified him to serve him, he shrinks back and does not want the job. He is like Paul who cries, “Who is sufficient for these things?”