Excuses for not doing what God asks us
When God calls us to a service point or a department, it happens that we invoke all kinds of excuses to justify our refusal to obey. Some servants of God have done this, for example:
Read Exodus 3 v 11 & 12: Moses answered God, "Who am I? "It takes
perhaps someone of no importance ... But God says" I'd be with you. " Ex
4 v 10 to 12: Then he adds: "I am not a man that has the word easy ..." He relies
weakness, disability.
Answer of God: "Who gave mouth to humans? And who makes dumb or deaf, seeing or blind? Is not I the LORD? Go on now is I who am with thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say. "
Ex 4 v 13 to 15: Moses said: "Ah! Lord, send whom thou wilt send.
the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and said: Is there no there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. "
God sends Moses still on a mission, but it gives him a teammate who will speak in his place.
Judges 6 v 14-16: The Lord turned to him and said, "Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of Midian, is not I who sent you? "
Gideon replied," Ah! My Lord, with what I save Israel? Here is my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the smallest in the house of my father. " The Lord said, "But I'll be with you" ...
Gideon pleads poverty of his family, and the fact that he is the youngest, and God promises his presence.
Isaiah 6 v 1-8: He (Isaiah ) Said "I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
But the one of the seraphim flew to me, (standing) in his hand a live coal which he had taken from the altar with tongs. He touched my mouth and said: This has touched your lips your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for. "
I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? I answered: Here am I. Send me. "
Isaiah thinks he can not speak from God as sin. The solution is grace. The ember that has touched his lips comes from the altar of burnt offering which is consumed the sacrifices which prefigured the death of Jesus Christ on the cross. Then it is ready to obey.
Jeremiah 1 v 4-10: "The word of the LORD came to me saying,
Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you and before you come out of it, I told you I spent thee a prophet to the nations. I replied: Oh! O Lord! I do not know to speak, because I am a young boy.
And the Lord said to me: Do not say I am a young boy. For thou shalt go to all those against whom I send thee, and thou declare all that I command you. Do not fear for I am with you to deliver you, declares the Lord.
Then the Lord reached out and touched my mouth, and the LORD said, Behold I have put my words in thy mouth. "
Jeremiah is too young to serve the Lord, but God can use us regardless of our age.
to us too, he promised his presence, then obey ...
Matthew 28 v 18-20: And Jesus came and spake unto them thus: "All authority has been given me in heaven and on earth. Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you daily until the end of the world. "
