Who, Me?
But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” Exodus 3:11
Have you ever felt like that, “Who, Me?” In Exodus chapter 3, God and Moses are having a dialogue and Moses is trying to convince God of why he couldn’t do what it was that God was asking him to do- the very thing that God was sure that he could do. In the process of dialogue with God, I don’t think that we give it much consideration, but I believe that we often try to persuade the “I Am”… with, “Who, Me?” When in reality what God wants us to do and expects us to accomplish, has more to with Him, than it actually does with us! Nonetheless, I believe that we still play a vital part and a crucial role in God’s purposes being accomplished in the earth. And, I believe that how we view ourselves will in most cases determine the outcome of what is to follow and ultimately decides what will be accomplished. God puts His confidence in us and we must put our confidence in Him, but very little happens if we spend our time debating God’s decision to use us. Very little gets done while we debate God’s decisions. God has more faith and confidence in us, than we do in ourselves. And, that’s not always a bad thing, unless it hinders and delays the process of what God is trying to do in us and through us. We must remember that He made us and He created us for His creative purposes! And here’s the unbelievable truth: He knows us, He loves us, yet He chooses to empower us and He chooses to use us to accomplish His purpose.
Like Moses All of Us Are:
1. Doubtful- (feeling uncertain about something).
- Most of us don’t doubt God, but we doubt ourselves and when we doubt ourselves, we are doubting what He created and the purpose He created us for.
Most of would say, I am not ___________ enough.
- Our confession and God’s confession are usually not the same. Nonetheless, God doesn’t need for you to approve or disapprove of His decision every time He chooses to use you or anyone else for that matter. What God has spoken, He will bring to pass, but He chooses to use people to fulfill His plan. Your part is simple! You just have to come into agreement with what He is desiring to do, by being obedient, and by believing it and doing it.
Andy Stanley says, “We should be more worried about making a difference then we are about making a point.” *(what point are you trying to prove, especially to God?)
- God is saying, “I Am” and Moses is saying, “but who am I?” Creation debating with the creator. The clay questioning the potter. And yet, you and I tend to do the same thing today. What would happen if we would be obedient and agree without debate, dialogue or disbelief. What if we just took God at His word and acted upon it.
2. Dysfunctional- (troubled, distressed or unsettled).
- When God wants to use you, bless you or promote you, He will send a person, an impression or a word. When the enemy wants to deter you, distract you or discourage you, He will use a person, an impression or a spoken word. It’s our job to discern the encounter as being either a promotion or a distraction.
- When God speaks the truth that He wants us to receive it, however, there is always an inner voice that will come against that truth. *(doubt, fear and unworthiness)
- Moses doesn’t actually doubt God, He doubts himself. But, in doing so he is actually doubting the very thing God wants to use, himself- that’s right, Moses!
- The voice of the inner enemy speaks in 1st person. The devil internalizes the argument so that we are saying whatever it is that we are saying, to ourselves. Things like: (“I’m so ________.” “I will never _________.”) >(fill in the blank)
- It’s not just the things in our past that comes up when we doubt ourselves. It’s also those things in the present that we have never gotten right or that we haven’t had the courage to deal with yet, these things also comes up in these times when we our doubting ourselves the most.
- You need to hear God’s voice above all other voices. He knows you, He created you and He loves you! If you needed whatever “it” is to accomplish what it is you need to accomplish, then you would already have it! If you don’t have it, then you don’t need it to accomplish what it is that God is desiring for you to do. In reality- all that you truly need is Him! Believe Him! And trust Him! And see what happens. Insecurity is actually the ultimate insult to God, because He created you. When we debate our shortcomings with God, we are insulting His judgment. *(quit trying to convince God of what He already knows and believes).
3. Deficient- (lacking something that is needed).
- We are all lacking something in some area.
- We are never strong enough, decisive enough, patient enough, loving enough, good enough, strong enough or more than enough.
- God is saying whatever you don’t have I will give you. He is saying that I will give you the words, the faith, the perseverance, the strength and the courage.
- God wants you to believe in yourself and lean on Him all at the same time!
He said to Moses, “I made you.” *(when you doubt the product you insult the manufacturer)
God is saying, “I am.” (Moses is Saying I know you are, but “who am I?)
Moses says, “If I did do this, who do I tell them sent me? And God says, “I Am.” Moses says, “Who?” God says, “That’s my name, I Am!”
I Am- the God Who Was… I Am- the God Who Is… And I Am- the God Who Will Always Be!!!
(the God of your grandparents, the God of 2021 and the God of whatever the future may hold)It’s not who you are, but it’s who He is in you… He is I AM!
– I’m not very good and God says I know, but I am…
– We say I’m not______. But God says, I know, but I AM!
- Moses said, “I’m not clever with words” but God said, “I know, but I Am!”
- We say, “I’m not patient enough” but God says, “I know, but I Am!”
- We say, “I’m not sufficient enough” but God says, “I know, but I Am!”
- We say, “I’m not faithful enough” but God says, “I know, but I Am!”
We need to say, “I know that I am _____!” Not in a arrogant or egotistical way, but in the confidence of I know I am, because I know the I Am! And, I am! Because the I Am lives in me! *(I move and breath and have my being in Him, the great I Am!)
He made you. He knows you. He loves you! He is the great I Am and you can know that you are_________, because you know Him and He lives in you!
Being confident of this very thing, that He who begun a good work will complete it!
He is, I Am! And because He is – I am – I can! And I Will! And I am _______ enough!
