Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

Called To Set Captives Free

God tells Moses to remove his shoe and stand on holy ground. He tells Moses who He is and what He intends for Moses to do. He give Moses a calling and in that calling there is purpose. Moses was to return and do what he may have thought he was supposed to do 40 years ago, deliver the people from oppression and bondage.

God’s plan hadn’t changed but Moses’ preparation had changed dramatically. Moses wasn’t fully God’s man 40 years ago and it had taken 40 years of humbling in the wilderness of Midian to make him so.

Acts 7:22- 25 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and in deeds. And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.

He thought God was ready to use him 40 years ago after he had been prepared in Pharaoh’s palace, but it was 40 more years in wastes of the wilderness before God had fully prepared him.

When God and the desert was finished with Moses, then he was ready. No, not in his own eyes but in the eyes of God. Now he could fulfill the first purpose of God’s calling, to deliver those bound in the chains of slavery.

Called To Gospel Service

We, as New Testament servants of God, are also called to fulfill God’s purpose. Like Moses, we also are to deliver those bound, not from the chains of Egyptian bondage but from the chains of sin's bondage. Moses was sent and empowered by the Lord’s command at the burning bush but we have been sent and empowered by the Lord’s command in Great Commission.

Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.  Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

We will not be effective in the greatest calling ever given to man, unless we also are prepared by God to be His person and not our own. Letting God use us His way and in His time took Moses 40 years, how long will it take us? And if God does not call us to the level of leadership of a Moses will we still be faithful and humble in our service to Him? Moses was wrong in setting his own timetable and agenda, that had to be up to God’s timing. We must allow God to work in and through us in the timing, the preparation and the opportunities of service.

Whatever it may be and whenever it may be, be willing to serve as the Lord calls. - Pastor Kris Minefee