Exodus 3:11,12

Moses now starts to raise all sorts of objections to God about why he cannot be the right person for God's mission. So when we do the same it is nothing new to God! 

The first objection that Moses raises is "who am I to do this?". We need to note that Moses had good reason for saying this. He had been in exile from Egypt (you know things are going badly when you are in exile from exile!) because the Israelites hated him and Pharaoh hated him. He had tried to help the Israelites and had failed. So all his experience taught him that he was not the man to do this. For all of us there are things in our life that have had a deep impact on us. We have ingrained views of ourselves, and areas where we feel complete failures.

God does not view us in the same way. Because of Christ anything is now possible. Now note that God is not ignorant of our past, our psyche, our failures and psychological flaws, it is just that He knows that in Christ they can be overcome.

God answer is "I will be with you". This is all we need. If God is with us who is against us? (Romans 8:31). The thing we should ask for in all situation is to be aware of God's presence with us (see Psalm 27).

God then gives Moses a sign. At first this might seem hopeful, but it is in fact useless (taking a human way of looking at things). God can sometimes be extremely unhelpful, and this is one of those occasions. He says that the sign will be "when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain". Now think about it, when this has happened Moses will already have inflicted the ten plagues on Pharaoh, seen the Red Sea part and several other miracles. At that point he won't need a sign!

So what is the lesson we can draw from this? It is that often you will only know that it really is God leading you when you start to take the steps. It is called living by faith. Our nature is to want to have everything all neatly set out beforehand, but God's nature is that we should take the steps, and He will assure us along the way. The way to know Jesus is to start to follow.