Commissioning

When God spoke to Moses at the burning bush in the Sinai desert He used a number of words that apply to our God given tasks that are timeless and appropriate.  I am borrowing from a sermon of Mat Friedeman who admitted that he was plagiarizing another preacher from the South US.

This all comes from Exodus chapter three.

Find these words:

"I see"
"I hear"
"I know (understand)"
"I am come down"
"I will send you (Moses)"
"I will go with you"
"I will put words in your mouth" Ex. 4

Think about this the next time you face an impossibility.

Exodus 3:7-12

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
		And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
		Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
		Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
		And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
		And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.