Moses, a man that asked, "Who am I"

The servant of God is nothing in Himself, he is merely someone so totally surrendered to God and His will that the All-powerful God can use Him to do great wonders.

²³ By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they sawhe was a beautiful child; and they were not afraid of the king’s command.
²⁴ By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, ²⁵choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, ²⁶ esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in^[e] Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
²⁷ By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. ²⁸ By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
²⁹ By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned.

Exodus 3 – 4

Moses was not a mighty man of God, he was a man of a mighty GOD! In himself, he had unbelief, a speech problem, and thought himself terribly unsuited for the task of bringing the people out of Egypt. For 40 years he was a shepherd and probably forgot how to talk. “Who am I” Moses saw himself as who he was, a mere man. However, he at first failed to see what God was trying to tell him – that it was not Moses who will be bringing the people out of Egypt, but God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It would not be out of Moses’ ability, or rather disability, but instead, God’s power working through him, that Moses was only a vessel, an instrument of God.

In Chp 4, we see Moses worried that the people would not believe him, his word, or his divine mission, he was looking to himself. Pestering God with questions of our unworthiness is not legitimate, since God knows that we are nothing but wretched human beings and cannot do anything in ourselves. Rather, we are His instrument, His ministers, and the power and ability to do the work of God never comes from us but from Him! It is not by the works of the flesh, but of faith!

Moses' Excuses	God's Answers
Who am I? (3:11)	Certainly I will be with thee. (3:12)
What shall I say unto them? (3:13)	I AM hath sent me unto you. (3:14)
They will not believe me. (4:1)	What is that in thine hand? (4:2)
I am not eloquent. (4:10)	I will teach thee what thou shalt say. (4:11-12; 14-15)

 (The chart was taken from AOP's SOS Bible 1002 curriculum )

God doesn't need you to serve Him, it is only to your blessing that you choose too. Too often we think that we serve should God with our talents, and with our abilities, and with our giftings – but it is not so – we have to surrender our will, die to our talents and goals, and submit our ability to the will of God. Even our giftings and callings have to be given to God. Moses himself tried to save Israel, to accomplish God’s will by murdering the Egyptian. God had to bring him through the “wilderness experience”. The wilderness seems like the school God uses to train the men who will be great for him – Abraham, Isaac, Moses, and many others, including Paul the apostle. God brought him to be nothing, then God used him.

If God wills, he can use a donkey. He often chose to use people that other people will not choose. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts, His ways higher than our ways. (Isa 55)


Oh that God need not take us through the Wilderness to be useful to Him. I pray indeed that God us His way. I pray that we may be of use to God, that He will mold us, shape us, into His image and His likeness. Oh that we can echo the words of the great hymn, without hypocrisy or guile but in an honest and truthful manner, 

1. All to Jesus I surrender; 
all to him I freely give; 
I will ever love and trust him, 
in his presence daily live. 
Refrain:
I surrender all, I surrender all, 
all to thee, my blessed Savior, 
I surrender all. 
2. All to Jesus I surrender; 
humbly at his feet I bow, 
worldly pleasures all forsaken; 
take me, Jesus, take me now. 
(Refrain) 
3. All to Jesus I surrender; 
make me, Savior, wholly thine; 
fill me with thy love and power; 
truly know that thou art mine. 
(Refrain) 
4. All to Jesus I surrender; 
Lord, I give myself to thee; 
fill me with thy love and power; 
let thy blessing fall on me. 
(Refrain) 
5. All to Jesus I surrender; 
now I feel the sacred flame. 
O the joy of full salvation! 
Glory, glory, to his name! 
(Refrain) 
When Christ calls a man, He bids him COME and DIE! (Bonhoeffer)