"Who am I, that I Should Go?"

In Exodus 3:11, Moses asks that question to the Lord who was calling him to bring the people out of bondage from Egypt. The problem with his question is that his focus is on himself. "Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?" There are a lot of first person pronouns referring to Moses in that verse that did not exist in the calling from God previously:

-Verse 6-10: "I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob......I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows; and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land....Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt."

All of those first person pronouns are the Lord Himself speaking; yet Moses, pondering the call, then focuses on his own abilities. Something is wrong with that picture. Moses was focused on seeing the difficulty of accomplishing the task, the Lord was seeing the affliction of the people. Moses was focused on himself bringing people out of a land, the Lord was focused on delivering people from bondage. The calling has a focus that God sees and knows better than we ever will, and we see very little and question the call. Something is wrong with that picture.

I am not going to lie when I say that I have been wrestling some with this slightly. "Who am I, Lord?" I can answer this for you. I was a hell bound sinner that the Lord brought out of darkness and into His marvelous light. It was nothing that I had done. I never even prayed about salvation because I was wanting help in a different way. God saved me in the midst of my rebellion. Is He therefore able to accomplish the work in this calling? If our hope is in us doing the work, nothing will be fruitful. We won't pray, we won't read the Bible, we won't cater our affections toward the One who can do it, we won't have a walk of faith at all. This is why so many are lost in religion because it is easy to do this as you comfortably sit in the pew once a week

As we discipline ourselves to focus on the Lord, we covet your prayers. We are not focusing on what we can do any more than a truck is being paranoid about how it will drive today: the owner must turn on the car and do the driving, using it as an instrument to help them accomplish getting their work done. God is not our co-pilot, He is the pilot. We are merely instruments that we believe He is desiring to use to establish a Biblical church and school in the future. My faith is not in myself, it is in the Lord of heaven and Lord of earth. The Almighty. The Awesome and Amazing God who spoke all this into existence. Is there anything too big for God? He is more than capable to accomplish this. We must be faithful and the fruit is up to Him.