Psalm 35
Exodus 4:10-31
1 Corinthians 14:1-19
Mark 9:30-41

"O Lord, please send someone else"

God asks Moses to be his Ambassador, a great honor, but Moses wants none of it! He does not see in himself what God sees! So he tries to beg off.

I know what Moses is feeling! I want to stay comfortable and safe too, to avoid sweating and straining and struggling. To stay with what I know, even when I know I'm bigger than that, and the world is bigger than that. I want to shrink from challenges too big and risky, to shrink from the unknown. It's hard to have faith in one's gifts when the world says, "not good enough."

Lord, grant that I may see myself as your creation, and live up to your promise, a spark of divine life.