It has been enlightening reading Exodus again. Wednesday of Lent 5 in The Treasury of Daily Prayer has Exodus 4.1-18 as the Old Testament reading. In this reading Moses tries to beg out of his assignment, comes up with excuses and in the process ticks The LORD off (“Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses.”—Ex 4.14).
Even so, God uses Moses. He gets him a helper (his brother, Aaron) and provides him with a miraculous staff. The LORD doesn’t say, “Forget you.” Of course, this is in keeping with how God operates. In the New Testament St. Paul makes note of this in First Corinthians:
"For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”" (1 Corinthians 1:26-31, ESV)
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