I Will Be With You

I AM more powerful in you (you yielded to Me) than anything that can come against you (even your own emotions and fears).  I AM BIGGER, I AM ENOUGH, and I am with you.  And THAT FACT makes the difference!      

“And the LORD said, ‘I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.  So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey,……’”…… “Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.” Exodus 3:7,8,10

 The Lord tells Moses that He has come to deliver His people and then continues with how He is going to do it: “I will send you.”

“But Moses said to God, ‘Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?” verse 11.

And God’s response makes ALL the difference!
 Moses asks, “Who am I?” and God answers, “Certainly I will be with you….”

He is the difference!

Moses’ second excuse is recorded in 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.” And the LORD answers him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
 Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say.” V. 11 And again in verse 15, “…I, even I, will be with your mouth…, and I will teach you what you are to do.”

                We see it in Joseph’s life in Genesis 39:2 “And the LORD was with Joseph, so he became a successful man.”

We see it repeated to Joshua “Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, FOR the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 2:9

                Gideon is called a ‘valiant warrior’, and Gideon’s response is ‘how shall I deliver Israel? My family is the least, and I am the youngest.’ “But the Lord said to him, ‘Surely I will be with you,…” Judges 6:16

                Then there is David’s example.  “And David became greater and greater;”..  Why?... “FOR the Lord God of hosts was with him.”

That is what makes all the difference!

                He tells Jeremiah, “Do not be afraid of them, FOR I am with you to deliver you.” Jeremiah 1:8 (and verse 19)

                And to Paul He says in the night by a vision, “Do not be afraid any longer, but go on speaking and do not be silent; FOR I am with you…” Acts1:9,10

                Moses’ truths were still his “truths”; Gideon’s truths (I am least) were still his “truths”.  Joseph was second youngest, David was the youngest… those were still their natural ‘birth orders’… God doesn’t care about our natural stature or how the world ‘labels’ us or how we even label ourselves.

God’s truths override our truths…with the fact that “HE IS WITH US” and that FACT makes all the difference in our lives….”for He Himself has said, ‘I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,’ so that we confidently say, ‘The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid.  What will man do to me?”  Hebrews 13:5,6

Let that fact make all the difference in this day..
                                                  day by day..
                                                               one step of obedience at a time.
 He is enough to overcome all you consider true about ‘your lack’.  He is the difference between the statement: “ Who am I? I can’t.”  and the statement: “Here am I. Send me.”

Thank You Lord; You make all the difference!  All glory to You. 

May we exchange all the “I can’t, who am I?”s for….

“Because You are with me, I will not be afraid.
                                 Here am I. Send me.”