Moses knows it’s not an easy task. Therefore, he rejects God’s commission. Once he had been a royal prince. Now he’s just a poor shepherd. That may have been embarrassing for him. Because it says in (Genesis 46:34): “Every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.” He also spent the very best years of his life, from forty to eighty, in no man’s land. His best manhood was wasted with roving. Now he is old. Who will still expect much from an 80-year-old man? What a failure from a proud height!

God doesn’t make mistakes. He already sent Aaron on his way. Moses sees that it is not his strength that is in demand, but that God wants to act in all of this. In God’s school of humility, one learns to know one’s limits and see God’s possibilities. Moses is now ready not to act on his own and to wait on God.

God does not need a general, but a prophet who says what is on God’s heart. With God, availability counts. Now he has learned enough patience in dealing with the sheep to be able to lead a large, impatient nation. Those who do not overestimate themselves have the humility to wait for the divine time. In the midst of darkness, he sees the divine light.

It is God’s promise that gets Moses ready to go. Little is said of the task of Moses. But in the text, God says, Exodus 3:8, “ I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land”.

And verse 20 says, ” I will stretch out my hand.” Moses does not have to do something – no, God acts. And Exodus 4,12 says, ” I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” God needs people to speak what is on his heart.

Paul says it this way in 2 Corinthians 5:20: “Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”