A stuttering excuse

Not long ago, I was reading about the story of Moses. Most of us have heard that Moses actually had a stuttering tongue. The bible did hint on that aspect.

"Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue." - Exo 4:10

Now when if you think about what Moses said, bearing in mind his prior excuses, there can be one of three possibilites here :-

1) Moses lied
2) Moses said the truth
3) Moses underestimated himself

For (1), it is quite impossible for anyone in the right mind to lie before the living God especially after surviving a potential fire hazard with the Almighty. Crossed that out.

Maybe (2).
But in Acts, the bible revealed this :

"Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action." - Acts 7:22

Even if Moses had changed over the years and became more reserved in speech, what he said about himself was obviously not accurate. He told God that, "I have never been eloquent, neither in the past". Now that is not true! At the least, Moses had been powerful in speech before.

Now let's come to hypothesis (3) - Moses underestimated himself.

This seems plausible. I believe Moses underestimated himself and his ability. He did not see himself as God sees him - someone entrusted with the power of speech and action to achieve God's destiny for His people. Moses might have stuttered at the point of speaking to God but he saw his failure bigger than God. He neglected the ability, the success and the power that was invested in him all along. In fact, Moses was bathing in the mud of self-pity. I believe Moses did not begin his life like that. He was a young man full of fervor and vigor. He was a man of high aspiration to set his people free. But that one incident while helping the brawling Israelites ended in failure and plunged a wound of rejection deep into his soul. It has crippled his confidence.

God does not want to cripple your confidence in life, he just wants the source of your confidence to be shifted to Christ. Maybe God has invested in you the power of speech and action but like Moses you have been rejected by men and lost the confidence you once had.

Get up from the mud of self-pity and face yourself. You have the potential that God has given you and that has not fade away.