Laurie Hopkins

God called Moses to go and speak to the leaders of Israel and to the Egyptians with directions to take the Israelites out into the wilderness to worship the Lord.
Moses felt unequipped, as he was, to go and speak confidently and clearly to these people on behalf of the Lord. 
When he protested, he gave detailed reasons why he was not the one the Lord should send. 
But God…….
the Lord countered Moses’ protests by pointing out the fact that He had, indeed, created Moses and his mouth. 
He further directed that Moses was to go and allow the Lord to be his mouth and teach him what to say. 
The Lord does the same with us. 
He has created us. 
He has created our unique gifts and abilities. 
He knows exactly the potential the rests within us. 
If the Lord has called us to something, we can be sure that He will teach us to use that gifting that He has placed within us. 
Instead of wasting time protesting the Lord’s call on our life, we need to learn to step confidently forward when we are called, allowing the Lord to teach us what to do and say!
“Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.”

We’ve all been around the mountain a time or do. 
Sometimes it takes a few trips round to learn the lesson;
before God says “you have skirted this mountain long enough”! 
Interestingly, in the second verse, although God acknowledges that they have been trudging through the wilderness, He also points out two things:
1) The LORD your God has been with you and
2) you have lacked nothing. 
So what do I want you to take away from this morning’s devotions? 
1) even when you are in the wilderness, you are not alone and God will provide all that you need
2) the Lord is saying today, “you have skirted this mountain long enough”

Today is a new day; a day of new beginnings and new possibilities. 
Come out from around the mountain, turn northward and began to follow the path to the Promised Land that the Lord has laid out for you. 
That lesson is learned and it is now time to apply it.