How many of us consider ourselves unworthy for God's use, maybe due to our past failures or how we currently identify ourselves?
Forty years have passed since Moses fled from Egypt after failing in his self motivated action of trying to deliver the Israelites from the hands of the Egyptians. Of course, that one action, failure and mistake may have altered his entire life; it's also possible to believe that as the years went by, Moses may have built up his whole existence, his identity, and the way he sees himself around those events in his past...
Until God decided to move in His own way and save His chosen people, the people of Israel out of Egypt. In order to show His glory, God decided to use Moses for this work but Moses now has many excuses.
God said to Moses, "I am sending you..." and Moses replied, "I am a nobody..." (Some versions have, "who am I?...")...
He felt inadequate and unworthy for God's use. He no longer had that courage and boldness that he had in his youth. He was no longer willing to do the same work that he was motivated by his desires and emotions to do in the past...
But thank God that when God is sending us to do His work, He is not depending on who we think we are nor is He expecting us to go on our own.
God replied, "I will be with you..." meaning that everything depends on God and nothing on us. Meaning that He does not expect us to go alone; meaning that since He is sending us, all we need to do is obey and leave the rest to Him.
As we can see, God did not necessarily address what Moses said about himself because it has nothing to do with who we think we are or aren't. Knowing God will be with us should change everything. Many times we tend to undermine God, we think we know Him but we truly don't know Him. We sometimes forget or we simply don't know what He is capable of doing. He is an all powerful God; He is also a consuming fire. He can do everything and anything that we cannot do. He does not need our strength nor power, all He requires is our obedience.
Going back to Moses shortcomings, we can see that God is still willing to use us despite our past mistakes and failures; He can turn those things around for our good and for His glory. Through his past, God humbled Moses and taught him to never depend on his own ability or strength but only in God's power. God can use our ugly past to teach us the life lesson needed in order for God's will and purpose for our lives to be truly established. God can use our past to prepare us for the work that He has for us.
Lastly, when God is sending us to do His work, it has absolutely nothing to do with who we "think" we are, our strengths nor power; but it has everything to do with who He is and what He is capable of doing. The important thing is not what we have done but rather who our God is, whose ability we are relying on and who is with us.
-Yetunde
