HERE AM I...I MAY GO????!!!

When God calls your name, what is your response? Everyone responds differently. In looking at the Bible we see two men who handled the call to do the Lord's work in completely differently ways.

In Exodus 3:1-10 Moses is out tending to his sheep in the desert he encounters the burning bush. God calls to him from the center of the bush and Moses answers "Here Am I." By verse 10 God has told Moses that He [God] is going to use him [Moses] to lead the children of Israel out of captivity. Moses hears this and the excuses begin immediately. He said:
1) I have no ability
2) I have no message
3) I have no authority
4) I have no eloquence
5) I have no inclination

So here's God SPEAKING to Moses DIRECTLY through a BUSH THAT IS ON FIRE and Moses stands there and babbles on about why he can't, he just possibly couldn't.

When God calls to you, whether it's a simple task to participate with Him in or a larger, more complex sounding task, what is the response from YOU? Is it to offer up excuses like Moses? Do you doubt yourself to the point that you say back to God, "I can't. I just can't right now."

All of the things Moses said he didn't have he in fact did. The Bible says this about those things that we may use as an excuse when God calls us to join Him in His activities

1) ABILITY - Php 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

2) A MESSAGE - 1Co 15:3 - For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures,

3) AUTHORITY - Mat 28:18-20 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.

4) ELOQUENCE - 1Co 2:1-5 And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

5) INCLINATION - Php 2:13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

In Isaiah 6, Isaiah "sees" the Lord sitting on the throne and the seraphims are worshipping Him and Isaiah talks about being undone before the Lord. The Lord then asks, ""Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?" Isaiah does the opposite of Moses...Isaiah declares, "Here Am I, send me!" No excuses, no whining, no fretting over how he could or couldn't do the task. He takes his stand and says send me.

When God speaks to you, will you offer a plate of useless and faithless excuses or will you jump to the occasion and say, "Yes I will." God may be calling you to work on the church property or maybe He's asking you to go to Ukraine, South Africa, Alaska or some other place. Will you allow yourself to be used or to be useless?