I read, pondered and prayed Exodus 3:7-12 this morning. The Lord appears before Moses in the burning bush to commission and support.
The Lord said “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them from thepower of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.
Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” And He said, “Certainly I will be with you, and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain.”
We have seen, heard and are now commissioned to deliver our communities, nation and the world from affliction and oppression. We will question as Moses did, but we must remember that the Lord will be with us.
God calls use to serve God’s people.
Guide us along the everlasting way, O God with Jesus and filled with the Holy Spirit.
Amen
Peace, John