Exodus 4:11-12

The LORD said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

From Background Notes [BN] for June 7th & 8th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

The story of Moses’ call to a new identity begins with the sort of wonder that takes off its sandals and continues in the presence of slaves who see signs and then bow and worship. There is no new self, no new person, or no new identity without the profound experience of the Sacred before whom we bow and worship.

Having bowed before the merciless whips of Pharaoh’s taskmasters, toiling to “make more bricks,” this generation of Israelites bows before the merciful God who overflows with signs and wonders and the hopeful promise, “Let my people go.” Embracing a new identity, Israel will lose their old labels as slaves and receive new ones as the children of the living God. In this way, Moses finds himself precisely when he becomes God’s agent to set his people free.  [BN,6-7]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am