What God asks of us

But Moses replied to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent—either in the past or recently or since you have been speaking to your servant—because my mouth and my tongue are sluggish.”

The Lord said to him, “Who placed a mouth on humans? Who makes a person mute or deaf, seeing or blind?

Is it not I, the Lord?

Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say.” (Exodus 4:10-12)

We all have weaknesses and limitations. And when God asks us to do something, it’s easy to use those weaknesses and limitations as an excuse not to obey.

But God is not limited by our limitations. He only asks of us two things: our availability and our obedience.

And by relying, not on ourselves, but on him, we can do anything he has asked of us.

Lord, you made me the way I am, with all my weaknesses and limitations. But you are not limited by my limitations.

So I simply offer myself to you as I am and say, “Here I am. Send me.”