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I've been thinking a lot lately about the story where Moses meets God in the burning bush.

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God is speaking through the burning bush to Moses and I've been going back and forth and God has

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been explaining to him what he's going to ask of him to do after God gives him a few miracles that

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he can do and shows him that he can do it, that God will show up and be powerful through him.

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In verse 10, Moses said to the Lord, pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent,

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neither in the past nor since you've spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

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So basically he's saying, I just can't do it. I don't know, don't have the right things to say.

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God's immediate reply is this. He says, who gave human beings their mouths?

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Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

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Now go, I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say. The fact is that God is in control

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of all variables and to question God when he has commanded us to do something like to share

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the gospel with others, to love our neighbor as ourselves, to love our enemies even.

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When we question God about the kind of things that we're supposed to do and about doing the

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things that we're supposed to do for him, we are forgetting his power, his ultimate sovereignty.

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He is able to do through us whatever he wants to do, whether we participate or not,

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whether we are willing or not. So let us be willing. Let us say, as you wish, Lord. And then

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he is gracious to provide the resources and to take care of it all.

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Thank you, Lord.