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I'm Tanya Wilmeth and right now we're in the book of Exodus.

What do you think about people who have doubts and questions and how do you respond

when people have doubts and questions about God. How do you handle your own

doubts and questions? You probably have them. Are you in a community that

welcomes those conversations? Are you a person who comes alongside others when they're struggling to see or know or understand or believe God?

We could let Moses teach us a few things on how to confront God with challenging questions. As we saw in the

burning bush Moses isn't afraid to ask God the hard things. He also isn't afraid to

tell God how he feels, about his past, his personal qualifications, and his public perception.

When God told Moses to get up and go because he was sending him to the Egyptians who were

opposing his people, Moses didn't jump up and run toward Egypt. He

asked God, who am I that I should go? And when God told him that he would be with him and give

him signs to prove that Moses questioned,

suppose I go and tell them you sent me and they ask who you are, then what?

Well this is exactly what happens when he went to Pharaoh so we can thank Moses

for asking this question because that's where we get one of the most

awesome and distinct descriptions of God in his entire written word when he answered,

I am who I am. Tell them I am, isn't you? The book of Exodus is like a window to the way people

thought about mankind then and the way we think about ourselves and others today.

Like Moses time, humans are still quick to judge by social class,

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