Divine Commission and the Divine Presence (1) - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2025

Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt … I will certainly be with you.
Exodus 3:10, 12

Divine Commission and the Divine Presence (1)
God will never ask us to do something for Him, be it little or great, without His presence also aiding and empowering us.

Jehovah had appeared to Moses in the burning bush with the purpose of calling him to a special service: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down” (Ex. 3:7–8). How this foreshadows the Lord Jesus who came down to deliver His people! In the case of the Egyptian bondage, God wanted a man to be His representative, and that man, by divine calling, was Moses. But Moses balked at the mission! He summoned several excuses as to why he was the wrong person for the job. Firstly, he asked, “Who am I?” to do such a task. He was basically saying, “I’m a nobody” (Ex. 3:11). Then Moses found another excuse: suppose the people say, “The LORD has not appeared to you”; meaning, “Lord, they will think I’m making this up” (Ex. 4:1). Finally, as a last resort he says, “I am not eloquent”; “God, You shouldn’t use a guy that can’t talk” (Ex. 4:10). Perhaps this last excuse would free him; after all, how can God use someone to communicate who cannot actually communicate?

However, these were all clearly excuses, for Jehovah had said to him, “I will certainly be with you.” This is all we really need. Sometimes the things we are asked to do may seem daunting, or we feel we are insufficient for the task. It is then that God wants to show us that if He has asked it, He will be “our sufficiency” to accomplish it (2 Cor. 3:5). And it is an opportunity for us to prove Him. The mission comes with His presence; that is His promise. Let us trust Him.

Brian Reynolds