Scripture Study

Exodus 4:
"And Moses answered and said, "But behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee."
And the Lord said unto him, "What is that in thine hand?
And he said, "A rod."
And He said, "Cast it on the ground." And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. And the Lord said unto Moses, "Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail."
And he put forth his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand.
"That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee."

And then God gives says, And if they don't believe that then you can put your hand in your bosom and pull it out and it will be leprous, and then put it back in and it will be whole again.  And if they don't believe that then you could take river water and pour it on the ground and it will become blood.

And then I almost feel that Moses, interrupts Him, and finally gets around to asking what he really wanted to ask in the first place.

And Moses said unto the Lord, "O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou has spoken unto thy servant, but I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue."

So even though Moses may have feared a little that the people wouldn't believe him.  What he was really afraid of was that he didn't think he was a very good speaker.  And that maybe the people would make fun of him.  Or he wouldn't be able to get the message across.  He was really afraid of what he thought his inadequacies were.

So the Lord says, I made your mouth, you'll be fine.  But Moses says, Can't we send for someone else?  And God gets a little frustrated and says, fine Aaron speaks well, go get him.  He can speak for you.

This is interesting to me.  We are not organized enough, or smart enough, or out going enough, but if God is asking us to do something surely he thinks our bodies and our abilities are sufficient for the task.  And how many times does he go and get someone else to do it for me, or instead of me, because I doubt?