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Day 19, or January the 19th. Follow God. You

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know it makes sense. Our thought today is rooted

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in Exodus chapter 3, verse 11. But Moses said

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to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh

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and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? Now the

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big picture surrounding this verse. After serving

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as a shepherd for his father -in -law Jethro,

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sometimes called Ruel, Moses is confronted by

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God at the burning bush. It is likely that he's

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seen burning bushes before, but every other time

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they lasted only a few minutes. This one never

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dimmed or showed signs of dying out. And then

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he hears God's voice telling him to return to

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Egypt, to lead them out of Egypt into freedom.

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It seems a lifetime ago since Moses committed

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murder and fled from Egypt, and he had been on

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the run ever since. Moses is less than enthusiastic

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and offers one excuse after another, including

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not knowing what God's name is. No one will believe

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me anyway. I don't speak very well. This debate

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seems likely to go on forever until God shows

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signs of getting angry. And he strongly suggests

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Moses takes his brother Aaron with him, as he

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is an eloquent speaker and can therefore be a

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good spokesman. Moses finally gives in because

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he was by now seeing the logic of following the

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God of his fathers. And now our action step for

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today. I have heard so many accounts of God calling

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particular individuals into his service. A common

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denominator all too often is the suspicion that

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it's not a good deal, that God has an ulterior

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motive. I'm sure you've heard missionaries say

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things like, I told God I would go, but not to

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a hot country. Then he sent me to Equatorial

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Africa. It's as though God wants to trick us

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into doing his will, which is far from the truth.

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He always has our best at heart, and our part

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is simply to follow his guiding. Once it dawns

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on you, like it did for Moses, that God probably

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has a better grip of the situation than you do,

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following becomes a whole lot easier.