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September 28
Saturday


WHO AM I?

READ:
Exodus 3:7-15
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Moses said to God,
"Who am I that I
should go to Pharaoh?"
__Exodus 3:11
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Years ago, world-famous evangelist Billy Graham was scheduled to speak at Cambridge University in England, but he did not feel qualified to address the sophisticated thinkers. He had no advanced degrees and he had never attended seminary. Bill confided in a close friend: "I do not know that I have ever felt more inadequate and totally unprepared for a mission." He prayed for God's help, and God used him to share the simple truth of the gospel and the cross of Christ.

Moses also felt inadequate when God recruited him for the task of telling Pharaoh to release the Israelites. Moses asked, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?" (Ex. 3:11). Although Moses may have questioned his effectiveness because he was "slow of speech" (4:10), God said, "I will certainly be with you" (3:12). Knowing he would have to share God's rescue plan and tell the Israelites who sent him, Moses asked God, "what shall I say to them?" God replied, "I AM has sent me to you" (vv.13-14). His name, "I AM" revealed His eternal, self-existent, and all-sufficient character.

Even when we question our ability to do what God has asked us to do, He can be trusted. Our shortcomings are less important than God's sufficiency. When we ask, "Who am I?" we can remember that God said, "I AM." __Jennifer Benson Schuldt

``````````````````Dear Lord, help me to remember that You are````````````````````
```````````````````with me, even when I'm unsure of my own``````````````````````
`````````````````abilities. Give me the faith to believe that You````````````````````
`````````````````can help me to do anything You ask me to do.`````````````````````
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You need not be afraid of where you're going
when you know God's going with you.

********************************************Today's Bible Reading __ Exodus 3:7-15**************************************

7 And the LORD said: "I
have surely seen the
oppression of My people
who are in Egypt, and have
heard their cry because of
their taskmasters, for I know
their sorrows. 8 So I have
come down to deliver them
out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them
up from that land to a good
and large land, to a land
flowing with milk and
honey, to the place of the
Canaanites and the Hittites
and the Amorites and the
Perizzites and the Hivites
and the Jebusites. 9 Now
therefore, behold, the cry of
the children of Israel has
come to Me, and I have also
seen the oppression with
which the Egyptians oppress
them. 10 Come now, there-
fore, and 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 that I should
bring the children of Israel
out of Egypt?"

12 So He said, "I will
certainly be with you. And
this shall be a sign to you
that I have sent you: when
you have brought the people
out of Egypt, you shall serve
God on this mountain."

13 Then Moses said to God,
"Indeed, when I come to the
children of Israel and say to
them, 'The God of your
fathers has sent me to you,'
and they say to me, 'What is
His name?' what shall I say
to them?"

14 and God said to Moses,
"I AM WHO I AM." And He
said, "Thus you shall say to
the children of Israel, 'I AM
has sent me to you.' "

15 Moreover God said to
Moses, "Thus you shall say
to the children of Israel:
'The LORD God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob, has sent me to
you. This is My name
forever, and this is My
memorial to all
generations.' "