15th.: Moses’ 4th Response to his Commission
Moses then tried to get out of this assignment,
bymentioning his own personal insecurities,
“O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou has spoken unto thy servant.
But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.” (Exo. 4:10).
Moses did not think of himself as a great orator. He may have thought that this would cause problems.
There is a bit of irony here. Moses said that he had a slow tongue.
Yet he had just given God a rapid fire series of objections,
as to why he was not the best candidate for delivering Israel.
Still, God did not rebuke Moses,
“Who has made man’s mouth, or who makes the dumb or deaf, or the seeing,
or the blind, have not I, the Lord. Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.” (Exo. 4:11-12).
God promised to fill in the gap for any of Moses’ personal weaknesses,
so that all men would know that it was God who did it.
Likewise, we can ask God to fill in for our weaknesses, that He may get the glory, and the credit.
Of course, we must be sure that we don’t want Him to fill in for us, so that we can be lazy.
“And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” (1st Cor. 2:4-5)