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G-d tells Moshe to go and save the Jews. Moshe’s reply is a question: “Who am I?”
G-d seems to ignore the question, almost as if it was the wrong question! Instead of answering the question directly, G-d replies:
“I will be with you.”
This non-answer suggests that perhaps Moshe was indeed not qualified for such a monumental task?!
Perhaps G-d’s reply is a way of telling Moshe (and each of us) that by ourselves, none of us is particularly special? That indeed, it may make little or no difference who we are? That what really matters is that that we can do anything as long as G-d is with us?!
Does that thought give us courage for other endeavors in our lives?
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I suspect many Christian pastors have preached some version of the sermon you just typed, but with less clarity and a lot more words.
Well done.
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And 90s Christian music, too!
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Or just endlessly wondering if He is really with us in whatever we happen to be doing at the moment? The way I usually find myself framing the issue.
And the other issue is to recognize that changing a diaper is service to Him, just not on the same order as dividing a sea. And that doing a big thing badly may not have the merit of doing a small thing well in His eyes.
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Who we think we are is less important than our relationship with G-d.
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His ways are not our ways. The big trap is when we think we are pleasing Him and we are earning His wrath. Corrupt religious leaders stoke that. If I had not read scripture from a very young age, I would just be another clueless sinner talking about God is love and embracing the sin of presumption all the way to perdition. Scripture subverts fallen human culture.
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