What God Ask- I Don't Think I Can Do It! Series

We have been talking the past several weeks about places in our lives where chaos might be found. If we are honest, we all have a degree of chaos in our life. Some more than others, and to be honest some whose life is totally chaotic.

So far, we have looked in two areas of our life where we might find chaos in our life: in our family life, and in our schedule.

Today, we are going to look at chaos in a completely different area. Chaos can occur in our life when God ask us to do something that we feel like we cannot do. The classic example is Jonah. God called him to go to Nineveh to preach the Gospel, and by his actions he told God that he could not do it. He boarded a ship to Tarshish. A great storm occurred as a result, and he endangered the others on the ship. He was thrown overboard to save the ship and the crew, and he was swallowed by a great fish. He was inside the fish’s belly for three days until God caused him to be vomited up on dry land. That was quite a ride! That was quite chaotic all because Jonah could not do what God had asked him to do.

Just like Jonah chaos may occur in our life because God has asked us to do something that we feel we cannot do. I remember the chaos Anne and I experienced in our lives when I knew that God was calling me to preach, and I was telling God “No” I cannot do that. I remember plainly when I agreed with God to go into vocational ministry, the chaos subsided.

God may be asking you to do something today, that you feel you cannot do, and the result is that chaos has come into your life. It might be tithing; God has asked you to give to his church. You tell God “No” I got too many bills to pay to give. And you find, your money takes wings and flies away making your financial decision even more chaotic.

It may be praying out loud in public, God has asked you to be bolder in prayer and you told God I cannot pray in public. God may place you in situations where you the only Christian and if a prayer is to be lifted to God, you must do it.

How about if God asked you to go on a mission trip? How about if God asked you to witness to a stranger. Could you do that?

The point is when God ask me to do something, and I don’t think that I can do it usually chaos will follow in my life until I surrender to what God is asking.

So, what we need to learn today, I think we learn from an interaction between God and Moses when God appears to Moses at the burning bush. In Moses’ early life, Moses anticipated that God was going to use him to lead God’s people out of Egypt. But he killed an Egyptian, fled to the desert and stayed there 40 in hiding and tending the flock of Jethro. And so, when God asked Moses now 40 years later to lead the people out of Egypt, I can see the chaos going through his mind as he talks with God. Moses is thinking, I am no longer a young man; I have a lot of baggage in my life, I don’t think I can do it. And God was gracious, and He reminded Moses of somethings we all should remember.

Turn with me in your Bible to Exodus 3:11-14 and Exodus 4:1-5 and Exodus 4:10-13.

Scripture

Exodus 3:11–14 (NKJV)

11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

12 So He said, “I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”

13 Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”

14 And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Exodus 4:1–5 (NKJV)

4 Then Moses answered and said, “But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’”

2 So the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”