Excuses Excused

In this Christian walk of life, I notice that we give excuses after excuses when it comes to the walk of a life as a Christian and the service of God in the church? The excuses that we customize for God, would get us fired anywhere else.

I have often considered, how effective the church would be if we were to actually offer the same level of dedication, determination and devotion to the church as we do to other amusements, pleasures, and glees? It just seems like we offer God more excuses than we do services. We give excuses of why we don’t like church and why we don’t go to church.

I don’t like the preacher; well you are not there for the preacher.

There are too many lairs in there for me, they are at Walmart to, but you haven’t stop going there.

Too many hypocrites are there, well, show me church that don’t have them.

They hold service too long for me, you don’t complaint about overtime at the game.

The music is to loud, you never tell the DJ at the club to turn down.

It’s too many sinners in there for me, but I’ve got some for you this

morning, and that is the only way that you can live above sin is if you live on the second floor and there is a sinner that lives on the first floor. Because the bible says that all have sinned and came short. There are just too many excuses for why we don’t, and not enough excuses of why we should.

As we examine the lesson in Exodus 3, God tell Moses, Moses I have heard the cry of Israel for deliverance, liberation, and freedom, and he shares with Moses, Moses I am ready to deliver them. And then in verse ten we see the marching orders of God when God said, “Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people,

the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

In this chapter what we will see is that when God confronts Moses with what he has for him too do, Moses then begins to complain and offer his excuses. And if we are honest and authentic this morning, it seems as though some of us might be a relative of Moses, because some of us can see Moses within our own lives.

Because God has mandated us to do some things and then the excuses start:

You’re asked to teach a class – there is an excuse.

You’re asked to minister to the youth – there is an excuse.

When you are asked to pray for others ohh my spirit ain’t right, I’m too busy, that’s not my ministry. Often our excuses get in the way of doing the things God mandated us to do.

As we follow Moses, and the account of his live, Moses had a series of reasons for not wanting to hear the call of God. And as soon as God gave him the orders, Moses begins with a series of reasons as to why he should not be the right person for the job for which God had given him to do.

He begins his excuses in chapter 3:11-12, when the Lord call him his respond is who am I.

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? Who am I that I should go? Who am I that makes me qualified for the to go to Pharaoh? I think that I need to tell somebody this morning, to stop the who me syndrome. Because if God calls you then God will qualify, because this same God knew you even before you were formed in your mother womb. Moses said who am I? Moses shouldn’t known that the reason that called him is because God knew who he was. One of the reason Moses probably found issues with this calling is that Moses probably recalled his earlier encounters of failures. Because if you remember Stephen narrates and reports the events of what happen in chapter seven of the Book of Acts, (vv. 23-29), which says “Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian. For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand. And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another? But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday? And some of you all know that people have a way of recalling what you did, but they always forget what they have done.