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^{Exodus 3: 1} One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. ² There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up. ³ “This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.”

⁴ When the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!”

“Here I am!” Moses replied.

⁵ “Do not come any closer,” the Lord warned. “Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground. ⁶ I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” When Moses heard this, he covered his face because he was afraid to look at God.

⁷ Then the Lord told him, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. ⁸ So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. ⁹ Look! The cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them. ¹⁰ Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”

¹¹ But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?”

¹² God answered, “I will be with you.


That was it - Moses, one of the greatest men in the Old Testament, was reluctant to do what God has asked him to do - that was to lead the Jews out of bondage & out of Egypt & into the Promised Land of Canaan.

Moses just didn't see how he could do this.

And all God said was, "I will be with you."

And Moses went on to do just what God has told him to do.

God says the same thing to us. If He tells us to do something, He will be with us, "preceding & following" us (Psalm 139:5) - preparing the way & mopping up behind us.

Moses' task was no walk in the park. There were millions of Jews in Egypt. They were traveling across a huge desert to get to Canaan, before jet planes & Holiday Inn Express. And they wandered in the wilderness of the Sinai for 40 years.

And all God offered in the face of all that was "I will be with you."

And that was enough for Moses.

And that is enough for you & me.

Now matter what it is God tells us to do, it's a given that as we do it, He will be with us.

Our job is to obey, not to be successful.

The rest is His job.

"I will be with you."

That's enough.