Where you are
You’re afraid.
So were they. Both did it anyway — and not because the fear went away.
Moses
You can see what’s being asked of you and it feels impossibly bigger than what you have to offer. Maybe you’ve been telling yourself — and God — all the reasons you’re the wrong person. Not qualified enough, not confident enough, not gifted enough. Moses stood at a burning bush and made five separate arguments for why God had the wrong man. He wasn’t being falsely humble — he genuinely couldn’t see how someone like him could do something like that. God’s answer to every excuse wasn’t a list of Moses’s qualifications. It was: I will be with you. The calling didn’t shrink to fit Moses. Moses grew into the calling because he wasn’t walking into it alone. Whatever is in front of you that feels too big — the question isn’t whether you’re enough. The question is whether the one asking you to do it will go with you. He told Moses He would. He says the same thing now.
Gideon
Maybe you need to ask for a sign. Maybe you’ve asked more than once and feel embarrassed about it. Gideon asked three times — and the first time wasn’t even about the mission, it was about whether God was even still paying attention. He was the smallest person from the smallest family, hiding underground threshing wheat so the enemy wouldn’t see him, when God showed up and called him a mighty warrior. Gideon basically said: are you sure you have the right address? God was patient with every question, every request for proof, every moment of hesitation. The night before the battle He even sent Gideon to eavesdrop on the enemy camp just to give him one more reason not to quit. Your fear doesn’t disqualify you. Your need for reassurance doesn’t exhaust Him. Gideon went from hiding in a winepress to leading three hundred men against an army like locusts — not because the fear went away, but because God kept meeting him in it until he could move.
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