First 15 Insight- January 17- The Great Fixer

Daily Reading- Exodus 3:1-4:17

I was reading the First 15 reading today and started to laugh when Moses began to make excuses to God for why he couldn’t go lead the people of Israel out of Egypt. God had appeared to Moses at a burning bush that wasn’t being consumed, and he gave Moses two miraculous signs that he is all powerful. But Moses still wasn’t getting it. In verse 10, Moses said to the Lord,
“O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”

I love the Lords response! The Lord said to him,
“Who gave man his mouth?

Do you hear any sarcasm in his tone? “But God, my mouth doesn’t work right!”
God says, “Moses, I think I know how to fix that!”

God had given Moses a mission to accomplish and Moses immediately looked for reasons that he was not suited to carry out the mission. He had is eyes on the problems and not the God who he was standing before. God had just turned a staff into a snake and made his hand leporous and then restored it to health, and yet Moses didn’t understand that God is the Great Fixer. God can fix it!!!

Maybe Moses thought that since he had studdered all his life, this was a design flaw he was meant to have. God said, “I am the designer, I can fix that.” If God has given you a mission, don’t focus one the reasons you can’t carry it out. God is the Great Fixer. He will fix it when you are being obedient to him.