Mission Objective, ?

“But Lord!” Moses objected.  “My own people won’t listen to me anymore. How can I expect Pharaoh to listen?  I’m such a clumsy speaker!” [Exodus 6.12]

I suppose it is not unusual for a person to follow God and still get in a tight spot!  Just obeying God does not insulate us from troubles because, first of all, we remain human!  

As one can see in this simple little conversation between Moses and God, Moses' troubles had compounded quickly after Pharoah increased the burden on the Israelites due to Moses' first attempt at demanding their release.

The life lessons in this story are almost limitless.  God first told Moses to go and said that he would meet with adversity.  That adversity would almost have seemed bearable had the people remained faithful to the cause as well.  However, after the increased workloads were placed on the people of Israel, they too, turned against Moses!.  Moses placed the blame back on God for His choice of Moses with Moses being "...such a clumsy speaker!"

How might this story have been different had Moses simply took God at His Word and assumed that if God called him, God would also enable him to "speak" as a leader?  It appears Moses started the whole ordeal off with a faithless 'glitch' in the system: Aaron was never part of the original plan.

But here they were in a huge ordeal.  Pharoah remained unmovable and the people were angry at Moses.  And yet, God had no intentions of changing His plan to free Israel from their oppression.  God's mission objective for Moses remained to free Israel.

Has God spoken to me?  Have I presented faithless objections to that calling?  Do I sense hopelessness because I failed to simply obey without condition?  Have I fostered confusing and difficult circumstances because of my own doubt?

Father, I have asked some questions here that are contemporary to me today.  I suppose every one of Your children could at some point ask these same questions but for me today, they are real.  Please help me to review what it is You have laid out for me to do, and then, to simply do it.