Excuses! Excuses!

Exodus 4

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Monday, June 14.

I remember when I first experienced God’s call upon my life to be a pastor. I had a list of excuses including bad choices from my past that I felt disqualified me, ongoing struggles in my life, and the biggest one of all, my glaring inability to sing. Excuses, excuses!

I didn’t realize it at the time, but I had joined a long list of people that spans thousands of years of history. What is the common denominator of this list of people? People who were called by God, but who made excuses of why they weren’t qualified, if not found reasons for why they were disqualified.

In Exodus 4:10-13, Moses made excuses to God on why he can’t be the right guy for the job:

Then Moses said to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.” The Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? “Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say.” But he said, “Please, Lord, now send the message by whomever You will.”

Audaciously, this conversation came after God had given Moses three supernatural signs of God’s endorsement: 1) the staff turning into a serpent; 2) his hand having leprosy and then being cleansed of it; and 3) turning water from the Nile into blood.

Moses tried to convince God that he was disqualified, but God wasn’t buying it, because God has a whole different way of seeing things.

Are you currently making excuses on why God can’t use you to do something?

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