What Instrument Are You?

Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.

Exodus 3:10 

 

Moses....WOW....started out with so much in his corner and yet he ended up running away to the desert for 40 years believing his worth and usefulness to God had vanished faster than water hitting the desert sand.  He had tried to do what he believed God had planned for him.  He was, after all, a Prince of Egypt with power and influence.  Yet that was all gone now. He had nothing left to offer...or so he thought.

 

I'm going to be honest, I've thought like Moses too.  I believed that I had so mucked up my life that I had nothing left to offer God.  I believed my usefulness to God had dried up.  And I felt angry, depressed, and frustrated for it.  And, like Moses, I felt I had nothing left to offer.

 

When God came to talk with Moses through the burning bush, He spoke to Moses in a way he could understand.  He told Moses that He had a mission for him and it would the plan was easy to grasp: First, God told Moses, "I am sending you to Pharaoh."  Second, God told Moses, "You must lead My people Israel out of Egypt."  Notice God didn't say, "Moses, if you have some available time and would like to do Me a favor, would you mind terribly going to Egypt and talk with Pharaoh and bring My people out?"  

 

When I was growing up, when my Mom would tell me to do something and I told her I didn't want to (especially when it was along the lines of "Clean up this room"), her response was almost always, "I'm sorry, did I ASK if you would?"  She had a point.  God didn't ask Moses either.  You see, when God gives us His plan, we are to become His willing instrument, while God performs this task through us.  Most of the time, God has to get us to the point where we have nothing left to offer Him because it is then that we are more willing to let Him work through us.  After all, it's God's plan and His responsibility to see it completed, and it is our place to be available for Him to use.