Nevertheless – Moses

When God gives us a calling, he really doesn't care about our excuses. We may have real, legitimate, reasons why God's calling/plan is a bad idea and just won't work. And we're free to express them to him, as long as we understand he'll complete ignore them. He ignores our excuses with, “Nevertheless, I will be with you,” and he repeats the calling.

Look at Moses (see Exodus 3:1 – 4:17). Although a former prince, he's on the run and a fugitive from Egypt, hiding out in the desert. God calls him to pop down to Egypt and lead a few million slaves to freedom. Moses has all sorts of legitimate reasons why this is a dumb idea and just won't work.

• “I'm a nobody.” (3:11)
• “The Israelites will say, 'Who sent you?' “ (3:13)
• “They'll never believe me.” (4:1)
• “I don't know to talk in a court of kings. And I stutter. There. I'm genetically deficient.” (4:10)

Although God does answer each of Moses' objections, he really doesn't care about them. He basically ignores them all in and just keeps saying, “Nevertheless, I will be with you.” As if that's supposed to be enough! And it actually is.

God doesn't mind any of Moses' whining. It's when Moses says flat-out, “no please send someone else” (4:13) that God gets angry (4:14).

If it's something God is calling us to do, God will take care of the details, big and small. His presence with us is enough. We just have to stay available and willing to take the leap.