Are You Good Enough for God? Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Are You Good Enough for God?-------------------------------- Date: 10/15/2000 Keyword: "Moses" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passages* Exodus 2:11-12 11. One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12. Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. Exodus 3:3-7 3. [Forty years later, having run away from Pharaoh, Moses sees the burning bush] So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight – why the bush does not burn up." 4. When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am." 5. "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." 6. Then he said, "I am the God of you father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. 7. The Lord said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering." Exodus 3:10-12 10. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt." 11. But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" 12. And God said, "I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain." Questions 1. What qualifications did Moses have to be the one God used to save his people, Israel?   2. Put yourself in Moses’ sandals. What might he have been thinking when he said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"   3. Instead of explaining to Moses why he was selected, what was God’s answer to his question? Do you ever ask God similar questions about yourself? What can you learn from this passage about how God might answer you?   Practical help I don’t think Moses had a great childhood. It was a mix, probably like yours and mine. On the one hand, he had material prosperity, but on the other, he was aware of the phoniness. He saw the injustice toward his true people by those who had adopted him. One day, a full-grown Moses decides to take matters into his own hands. He moves to improve his world only to discover that he has blown it big-time. So he runs away. What about you? Are you comfortable materially? (Obviously you have a computer with Internet access at no small expense.) Are you keenly aware of wrongs in the world and do you see the hypocrisy in the lives of those close to you? (Frankly, who doesn’t?) Do you also feel a pull to act? And if so, have you found that your attempts have been unsuccessful or unappreciated? Have you used your failures as an excuse to escape into pornography? Or perhaps you see pornography as your failure? (Both or either could be true.) God is calling you. Yes, you! What does He want? No different than what He wanted from Moses. He wants you to make a difference in the lives of those around you. I obviously don’t know the specifics as they pertain to you — but you do. Look around. Who is hurting? Who is enslaved? But you don’t feel worthy? Well, then you are in good company; Moses didn’t either. If this is not making any sense to you, may I suggest you read 1 Corinthians 1:18-31. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2000 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."