Our Gift for Jesus, (Pt. 2)

In this season, we think of giving. We are thinking both about the greatest gift ever given, the Lord Jesus Christ, and about the gift that we should give to Jesus. The gift our Lord desires is our hearts, our lives, and ourselves. In our meditation on this, we began to explore the difficulties we encounter in giving ourselves to the Lord to do what He wants us to do. We did this by eavesdropping on a conversation that Moses and the LORD had in the desert of Midian when God interrupted Moses' life for a word from his Creator.

Last time, we looked at Moses' first response to the Lord's call that he should go to Pharaoh and bring God's people out of Egypt. Moses told God in effect, "Who? Me? You've got to be kidding, LORD. I'm nobody with a history of failure. You can't possibly mean you want to use me." Moses' thought God was looking for a "somebody," but God is looking for a "nobody" so that when the LORD blesses him and uses him, everyone would recognize the LORD did the miracle and not the man. A nobody plus God is somebody. God gave Moses two things in response to his objection. First, a great promise. "I will be with you." Second, the LORD gave a great sign. "When you lead them out, you will worship me here on this very mountain." Today we will look at excuse number two.
I. Moses Objects (v. 13)
II. God Overrules (v. 14-22)