“BUT I WILL BE WITH YOU!”

 Exodus 3:1-2;10-12                    (ESV)

“[1] Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the WEST SIDE OF THE WILDERNESS and came to Horeb, THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD. [2] And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, YET it was not consumed.

[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.””

Being REMINDED of exactly who we are by our CREATOR is one of the most humbling and painful experiences that can happen to anyone.  Moses was born in Egyptian captivity, where most Hebrew males were slaughtered at birth in an attempt to keep GOD “in control” of satan and “his ways”!  BUT GOD had a PLAN as HE ALWAYS DOES!!!

In the focal Scripture today, GOD ORCHESTRATED Moses to be tending sheep near Mount Horeb (Mount Sinai), also known as THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD!  Why did GOD CHOOSE this place to SPEAK to HIS servant???  Why not in the castle of Herod, where Moses was raised after Pharaohs daughter found him floating in a basket in the Nile River?   Could it be that ALMIGHTY GOD wanted to get Moses away from the clamor and business of “this world” to HEAR HIS VOICE delivering instructions to him on rescuing HIS CHILDREN???

GOD has CHOSEN to use HIS PEOPLE to exhibit HIS POWER to “this world”!  HE can, AND DOES, do MIRACULOUS THINGS to and through HIS CHOSEN for HIS GLORY.  When HE was speaking to Moses on Mount Horeb, GOD told Moses “BUT I WILL BE WITH YOU”, making HIS PRESENCE in his life VERY EVIDENT!  Why did GOD use a Hebrew in an Egyptian country to rescue HIS PEOPLE from the grips of one of the most powerful nations known to man???  Because GOD HAD A PLAN and HE KNEW (PREDESTINED) that Moses would do what HE SAID!!!

It is NOT a coincidence that Moses was at Mount Horeb at this point in time.  GOD had Moses PRECISELY where he needed to be at the EXACT TIME for him to be there! GOD had ORCHESTRATED things in the life of Moses since he was born, and HE wasn’t through with him yet!  “BUT I WILL BE WITH YOU” was THE PROMISE GOD made to Moses at THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD!!!

We must NEVER allow GODS PROMISE to leave us when as we are on our JOURNEY for HIM!!!  “BUT I WILL BE WITH YOU” hasn’t lost any POWER!!!