Exodus Chapter 3 today and everyone knows this story...So many messages have been spoken on The Burning Bush experience...And i get it, it's an exciting story. But what stood out to me was 3 small words that Moses spoke..."Who am I".
I don't think Moses asked "Who am I?" just because he was unsure of himself. I think he asked it because he remembered exactly what happened the last time he thought God was going to use him.
Think about it, Before Moses ever ran from Egypt, Scripture tells us he already believed there was something on his life. Acts says that when Moses was forty, "it came into his heart to visit his people," and that he supposed they would understand that God was delivering them by his hand, but they didn't (Acts 7:23-25).
So Moses wasn't acting randomly. He just acted early. And when it blew up, when fear took over and he ran, he wasn't just running from Pharaoh. He ran feeling like he'd messed it all up. So forty years later, Moses isn't dreaming about deliverance anymore. He's tending sheep. And that detail really matters. By Exodus 3, Moses is a shepherd and the Egyptians despised shepherds. We learned about that in Genesis when Joseph's family came to Egypt originally.
So he's not going back as a prince. He's not returning with status or influence. He's not walking back into Egypt with anything that impresses anyone. The first time Moses tried to step into his calling, he did it with position, education, and access. This time, God meets him in the wilderness and sends him back completely stripped of all of that. No palace, No privilege. He's Just a shepherd with a staff.
So when God shows up in a burning bush, this isn't exciting, it’s unsettling. God isn't offering Moses a promotion. He's reopening an old calling and it opens an old wound. And when God says, "I'm sending you back," Moses asks "Who am I?"
Think about it....
🌟 Who am I without my old title?
🌟 Who am I when the people I'm being sent to despise what I've become?
🌟 Who am I after I already tried this once and failed?
Can you relate? I sure can. After all these years, all of my mistakes, all of the running I've done and now God calls me out. Who am I? I feel it deep in my bones, I get it.
Moses isn't just afraid of Pharaoh, he's afraid of going back with nothing. But God answers him simply with what really matters... “I will be with you.” That's it. He doesn't lift Moses up, build his confidence, remind him who he is or remind him of the calling. It does matter who he is. What matters is that God is with him...Man....If we could just get that in our spirit and walk in that. It doesn't matter who we are as long as He is with us!
And when Moses asks what to say, what to tell people when they question him, God says, Tell them "I AM."
It's like God is saying, This was never about you going as a prince. It's about Me going with you. The time in wilderness didn't disqualify Moses. It removed the illusion that his position was the power. Moses didn't go back to Egypt as someone they would admire or look up to.
He went back as a shepherd led by I AM.
So no matter your situation, no matter who you are, where you come from or where you've been, no matter your past mistakes or how far you've run....None of that matters when you are walking with I AM!
Love Pastor Mandy
Ark of Hope Ministry
Daily reading Exodus Chapter 3
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