Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Yesterday we ended our reading halfway through God's conversation with Moses and Moses

had given two reasons why God shouldn't or couldn't use him to rescue the Israelites

from slavery in Egypt.

Today we pick up the back half of that conversation.

God gives Moses some signs to use to prove himself and Moses gives God three more excuses

or a buttolls to his call.

Honestly, Moses seems kind of right, but God is unmoved.

God patiently responds to each of his concerns, never hedging on his plan, despite the fact

that Moses is completely ill-fitted for this calling.

I mean, even in verse 3, Moses throws the staff on the ground and when it becomes a snake

he runs from it.

The guy who's afraid of a snake probably shouldn't go toe-to-toe with a dictator.

But God reassures him, not with the promise that everything will go perfectly, but with

words like these, I will be with your mouth and teach you what to speak.

I will send a helper.

Moses doubts himself, but God, his maker, reminds him who he's talking to.

Questioning God's calling is an insult to the God who made him.

All five of Moses' excuses are identity issues.

Going up in the environment he grew in it would be shocking if he didn't have identity

issues.

At this point it doesn't seem like he really knows or believes God, which means he can't

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