Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”
Exodus 4:12 (ESV)
One of the excuses Moses offered up as to why he was unqualified to confront Pharoah was that he was slow of speech. He was not a good speaker. This is an excuse that I could have easily offered had I been in Moses’ place. I can speak if I am adequately prepared. But extemporaneous speaking is something that I fear.
But God was not much interested in Moses’ excuses. He reminded Moses that he was the one responsible for making our mouths. He knows what we are capable of. And even more, he knows what he is capable of doing with it. The one who made my mouth, and all the rest of me, can enable it to speak as he desires.
I have found over the years that God has occasionally called me to do something that I thought was beyond me. Teaching adult Sunday school and Bible studies, writing daily devotionals, and leading projects on mission trips. But when I have been obedient to him, I found that he would enable me. He didn’t leave me to flounder along on my own.
So, our seeming inability is no excuse. The God who made us knows us better than we know ourselves. He knows what we can do. And he will never ask us to do anything beyond what he can enable us to do. That does not mean the task will be easy. But it will always be doable.
So rather than make excuses for why you can’t, trust the one who can, and take on that seemingly impossible task he has given you.
