“WHO AM I?”

 Exodus 3:7-12                       (ESV)

“[7] Then the LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of MY people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, [8] and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. [9] And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to ME, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. [10] Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring MY people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” [11] But Moses said to GOD, “WHO AM I” that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” [12] HE said, “But I WILL BE WITH YOU, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve GOD on this mountain.””

Moses was reared in Pharaoh’s palace with “privilege”!!  He was raised by his own mother, but only after Pharaoh’s daughter found him in a basket in the river.  Moses then killed an Egyptian when the Egyptian was beating a Hebrew brother.  After burying the dead Egyptian in the sand, Moses decided to FLEE from Egypt!  GOD came to Moses when Moses was keeping sheep at Mount Horeb (Exodus 3:1) for his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian to enlighten him on GOD’S PLAN to FREE HIS people!!

Most people have heard the story of DELIVERANCE of the Children of Israel from Egyptian captivity.  What this devotional will deal with is whom precisely GOD used to deliver the Children of Israel from Egyptian captivity.  Moses replied to GOD ALMIGHTY “WHO AM I” when GOD told him that HE was going to send him to Pharaoh to bring HIS Children OUT OF EGYPT!  Moses couldn’t SEE how GOD was going to release the Children of Israel from the Egyptians, especially when Egypt was very powerful at the time.  

Moses was very well aware of the intricacies of the Egyptian hierarchy.  Was this a coincidence???  GOD has a PLAN, and that PLAN was coming together with amazing precision.  Although Moses “stuttered” (Exodus 4), he was also CHOSEN by the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES to deliver HIS CHOSEN NATION to the Promised Land!  Yes, Moses might not have been the eloquent speaker, but he was the person who GOD CHOSE to perform HIS PLAN!!!

“WHO AM I” asked by Moses needs to be answered “you are just being used by ME (YHWH) to complete MY PLAN”!!’  GOD uses imperfect people to do things that are seemingly impossible. TO THIS DAY the rock where GOD provided water to the Children of Israel at Mount Horeb (Exodus 17:6) is still there!  Moses told GOD “WHO AM I” in Exodus 3:11, but GOD really needed EVERYONE to see WHO I AM is/was (Exodus 3:14)?!?!?!