“So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

- Exodus 3:10-11

When God called Moses to go back to Egypt and play an integral part in the great Exodus narrative of God’s rescue of his people, what might Moses have thought?

• I messed up so badly last time. Sending me is a bad idea.
• I have a life here in Midian: a home and a family and a job.
• I’m just a shepherd. My leadership skills have rusted from disuse.
• I’m not qualified.
• Those are your people, not my people.
• Nobody back there will follow me.
• People back there want to kill me.
• You’ve got the wrong man.

Who knows what rattled around in Moses’ heart when he heard God’s call? All Moses could get out in that moment was a faint “Who am I?”

In tomorrow’s Devotional, we’ll look at God’s surprising response to Moses.

But today we wondered if there isn’t some echo in us of Moses’ experience.

Small things nip at us, convincing us that we’re not qualified to love or lead or serve in the ways God’s calling us. We ask God to take our names off of his list and assume that he’s made some mistake when he gave us the responsibilities he’s given us.

Today’s application is to surface our questions. What drives your “Who am I?” questions? What makes you doubt or second-guess or refuse to freely engage in the life that God’s calling you to pursue?

Bring those questions to the surface and see what the Lord will say to them. We think you’ll be surprised and delighted.