"Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt" (Exodus 3:10).
After God told Moses that He had heard and seen the oppression of His people, He now announced the reason why He had revealed Himself to Moses.
He invited Moses, ‘come now’. He wanted Moses to join Him. He wanted Moses to be His instrument. Although God has all power, He chooses to work with us. In order to do that, He invites each one of us to partner with Him. Yes, He hears. Yes, He sees. That’s why He calls us. He invites us to ‘come now’.
Next, He told Moses, ‘I will send you’. Though He is the one who sees, we are the ones He sends. He calls us to be part of His mission, and then He sends us to do His work. He wanted to send Moses to do what seemed like an impossible task.
First of all, he was a refugee from Pharaoh. He had been hiding from Pharaoh, and now he had to go and confront probably the last person he wanted to see. He still remembered the death sentence on his head. Yes, it had been a long time, but he had still not forgotten.
Secondly, the children of Israel had rejected him. They had asked who made him, Moses, a judge over them. They didn’t see him as a deliverer. They probably felt he was a privileged relative who had never suffered like them; one who had now come to throw his weight about.
God has a way of choosing us to do the things we feel the least able or qualified to do. He sends us on missions we see as death sentences. He doesn’t give us comfortable tasks. He doesn’t send us to places we like to go. He usually takes us in the opposite direction of where we would prefer to go.
Like Moses, the Lord is saying to you, ‘I will send you’. Will you go?
