Next Moses complains about his inability to speak well. This may refer to a speech impediment, or to not being quick witted and able to reply to Pharaoh. Acts 7:22 says Moses was "powerful in speech and action", though this may refer to what he did after he met with God.
Moses is looking ahead and imagining all the problems and reasons why things will go wrong. God looks ahead knowing He has everything planned out. The person of faith looks ahead knowing that whatever arises God can handle it.
The Lord's immediate reply is that it was He who gave man the ability to speak or not. Do you see the difference in perspective here? Moses views himself as at the centre of it all, it is all dependent upon his ability (or lack of). We often do the same, we see things as being completely dependent upon us. This is a product of the fall, when we took complete responsibility for ourselves. This is not what we were created for. We were created to live in fellowship with God, so what we can and cannot do is limited only by what God says we can and cannot do. When we come into relationship with Christ we need to get used to living in this new paradigm, and doing this is one of the biggest problems we have.
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