Moses... The Most Humble Man

This actually happened to me one day as I as in the mall after work. First of all, I currently work in a mall at Chick-FIl-A (appropriate, I know), so being there after work is not that big of a deal seeing as I usually have to find a ride home as well. 

Anyway, I wasn't going to get a ride home for another hour, so I decided to do some reading while I was waiting. In this One Year Plan I'm doing, it was Exodus 6 that day. So I'm reading along, and I had to stop midway through because right at the beginning the Word just spoke to me, and this is what I wrote down.

In Exodus 6:2-8 God opens up to Moses after he comes to the Lord in distress about Pharaoh and the Israelites. God says, "I am the Lord." Then He continues on by telling Moses how He did all of these things for his fathers, Abraham & Jacob. Then God declares once more in verse 6, "I am the Lord." Then He continues on to tell Moses what He WILL do, and how He's never broken a promise.

Moses comes back in verse 12 about how he is "unskilled in speech." Really Moses...? Unskilled in speech? Wow. After all that God has just told him AND after God has already told him earlier that He would be with his speech (Exodus 4:11-12), Moses comes up with a lame excuse like THAT?!? Let's be honest though, how many times do we, do I, come up with some lame excuse not to be bold for the Lord and do His work? "God, I can't talk to that guy because I'm alone..."

Right at that moment, I realized that is what I was thinking! It was horrible because I was sitting there writing and ranting about Moses, when I realized that I had been looking up periodically and saw this guy that was sitting alone at a table in front of me. So I bowed my head in a quick prayer, and when I looked up again... he was leaving. Immediately, I felt ashamed that I had NOT been bold for God. However, God being the God that He is immediately pointed my gaze to another guy who was alone.

I quickly shot up another quick prayer (without taking my gaze from the guy this time... fool me once kinda thing), and got up with the expectation that I was going to be used by the Lord somehow. It turned out that this guy just came from Punjab, India and couldn't understand a thing I was saying. However, he did understand when I asked if I could pray with him (with hand motions, of course) and so I prayed for him there. 

I got a couple things out of this experience. First, I pray that I will respond quicker to the Spirit's promptings instead of not trusting in what God can do. Second, I cannot hate on a man who spoke directly to God and didn't trust Him sometimes, when I have God inside ME and still don't trust Him sometimes. Floored.