"I Am Slow of Speech"

I am reading through Exodus right now and am fascinated how easily people gain trust in God and then quickly lose it again. In one passage, we see the Isrealites singing praises to God and then later they seem to have forgotten what God had done for them. It is the same with Moses, God chose him even after he had killed an Egyptian. I find that today we are no different to Moses. God calls us to do things all the time. Do we choose to ignore His calling, do we find excuses, or are we willing to make changes in our lives to make room for God?

When God called Moses to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt, his main excuse was that he was "slow of speech". Exodus 4:10 Then Moses said to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.(NASB)"

I love how God put him in His place in the next verse... V.11 The LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

It is basically God telling him to shut up by reminding him that he is the Creator of all things, let alone his mouth. It is as if He were saying: "If I can make the Heavens and the Earth and all functions of your body, then I can give you the words to say to Pharaoh."

It is interesting to note that Moses kept telling God that he was slow of speech but he was not that slow to make excuses for himself...

I think we are all guilty of this..