God will help us speak

“Then Moses said to the LORD, ‘O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.’” Exodus 4:10

Have you ever felt this before? When you are asked to speak up front, you just lose your confidence and get all nervous? This was the case even for Moses. Moses was previously a prince of Egypt. With such an advanced civilization, Moses was able to receive the best education and training of all areas. This Moses said he was not eloquent enough and was slow of speech and tongue. There might be some reasons to that: maybe because it has been forty years since he left Egypt. Not speaking the language for so long could have been the reason for not being eloquent. Or he was just never good at speech classes even while he was receiving his education. Whatever the reason was, he was not ready to speak up.

Also, when you see the context of this chapter, God is asking Moses to speak up to not just any person, but to the Pharaoh. Moses ran away from Egypt. And now God is asking him to go back. His message to Pharaoh is to let his people go! It’s not just eloquence of speech that Moses needs. He needs courage and faith to even voice out!

Then God says, “Who has made mans mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.” Exodus 4:11,12

Jesus wants us to be His disciples. As disciples of Jesus, he wants us to go out and serve Him. It takes lots of courage and faith to speak up and share God’s Words to the people. Some people will listen but there will be people that will not listen and be stubborn like Pharaoh. It does not matter. God says we should speak up. For God says, “I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.”