kindling God’s anger finding God’s grace

Exodus 3, 4 & 5

God, 

“Go set my people free, I have a land for them flowing with milk and honey.”

Moses,

“Who am I?”

God,

“I will be with you. Tell them I AM sent you. I will strike Egypt with ‘all the wonders’. I will compel them with a mighty hand. I will give my people favor. You will plunder the Egyptians.”

Moses,

“But, they won’t believe me or listen to me. ”

God,

Mo! What are you doing? “Show me your hands, what is in them? A staff, OK, now it is a snake, pick it up Mo, now it is a staff again. Your hand? Put it in your jacket, pull it out, and wa la, it is leprosy. Stick it back in, pull it out, and wa la, it is healed.” I got this, therefore, we got this. I can work with what you have got. I specialize in smacking straight lines with crooked sticks.

 Moses,

“But I am not eloquent, I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

God,

“Who made your mouth, teeth, and tongue? Look right here. Me. I made them. “I will be with your mouth and teach you what to speak.”

Moses,

“Send someone else.”

God,

“Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses…”

God’s Grace,

Go get Aaron, he will speak for you.

Go tell Jethro, I will make sure he gives you his blessing to go back to Egypt.

Moses, though you deserve to die, I will accept Zipporah’s intercession and blood offering on your behalf.

We again have peace (through no effort of your own)

I will send Aaron to get you in the wilderness, to encourage you and share with you what I have told him and take you to Egypt, the mission all along.

Forgiven and redeemed, by the shed blood and action of another, you are placed back on mission, all despite you.

All Grace.

Moses did not muster his own security to solve his insecurity

Moses did not double down on a pledge or declaration of faithfulness

Moses did not find a speech coach and train himself up

Moses did not study and memorize the great speeches of the Bible to offer up to God to prove his worth

We do not even have a Moses confession and repentance, though it is safe to assume

God moved on Moses, in spite of Moses

God used Moses, in spite of Moses

All Grace

Grindforth!…with insecurity, covered by and covered in, God’s Ridiculous Grace

“The ‘heroes’ in the Bible are not super-Christians. They are broken men and broken women in a broken world with a perfect, Grace-addicted Jesus. They, like you and me, are five loaves and two fishes called to feed multiple thousands. Ridiculously inadequate. Alone, nothing. Unless we “bring it to me (Jesus), and He who makes it, takes it and breaks it and mixes it with His ridiculous grace and creates something that “everyone ate, and they were satisfied (full stomachs of good food), and they picked up 12 extra baskets.”

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Glory. Someone hit that Hammond B3 for me.

“I’m insecure,” and?

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