In my chronological Bible reading plan, I have been reading about Moses. In Exodus 3:10, God calls Moses to go to Pharaoh and lead Israel out of Egypt. God’s calling is unmistakable. Moses protests, saying, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?” And his shortcomings couldn’t be more obvious.
Should it surprise us that God’s callings are bigger than our shortcomings? That God is bigger than we are? That He would ask us to do what we cannot do apart from His divine power? What kind of God would He be if He only called us to do what fits neatly within our box of abilities—never needing Him or His power?
Who are we to think we can’t do what God has called us to do? The truth is, apart from Him, we can do nothing—not even what we think we can. Yet we are comfortable with some callings and not others. At the end of the day, this reveals pride, self-reliance, insecurity, and disobedience, to name a few… another way to put it: faithless drama.
God enabled Moses despite Moses. God will help us despite us.
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Peter 1:3–8, KJV)
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