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 rebuttals 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 staph 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 a promise that everything will go perfectly,

but with words like these, I will be your mouth and teach you what you shall 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's excuses are identity issues. Growing up in the environment

he grew up in, it would be shocking if he didn't have identity issues. Growing up in the environment he grew up 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 really know who he is either. At the last excuse, God gets angry. It seems like

Moses's hesitation was an affront to God's wisdom in calling him,

as though Moses believes God wouldn't be sufficient. Moses's fears and insecurities here are an

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