Moses Met God (Continued)

Exodus 3
Moses met God, but Moses was afraid. God told Moses to go back to Egypt, to tell Pharaoh to set the people of Israel free. Moses knew what he had done down in Egypt, he had killed a man.  He also knew that Pharaoh was a powerful man.  
Moses says unto God “Who am I?” Pharaoh won’t release them to me. My name means nothing. Maybe he would go back down there, but Pharaoh was KING, and it wouldn’t go well. I can imagine Moses says uh-uh, “No, thank you”, but God gave him assurance as we see in the 12th verse.
The bible says God will never leave us or forsake us.  If God tells you to go, He’s going to be with you. If He commissions you to go somewhere or to tell somebody something, regardless as to who it may be, even if it’s the president of these United States, He will be with you.  If God tells me “Johnny I need you to go to Washington - I need you to go tell the President something, I’m going.  And the thing about it is, God is so awesome that the CIA, those guys would not be able to stop me. Why? Because God is with me.  If He sends me, if He gives me a task like that, God is going to make provision for me.
Moses is taking on this task. I can imagine in my mind that as God has given Moses this task to go back down there in Egypt to deliver his people out of Egypt…..
And I can imagine Moses was shaking in his boots. If you study it Moses had a speech impediment, he stuttered a little bit.  So Moses made some more excuses. But God, He gives him somebody to go with him.  He will send somebody with Moses. 
If God gave one of us a task to do such as that - maybe go to take that message to the president - if I needed it He would equip me with a brother or sister that would go with me.  He would send someone that would be able to help speak for me.
He did the same thing for Moses – when Moses met God.
There are so many people that have met God but didn’t know it was God.  The bible tells us to be careful how we treat strangers for “some have entertained angels unawares”.  God himself will put people in our path if we need it.  We have probably all had an encounter with an angel and didn’t know it.
I know I have.
I was in Montgomery Alabama back in 1995 at a men’s conference down there.  During a break we went to look at a bunch of things that the speakers were selling – books, tapes, and other things. We had speakers like Myles Monroe, Whitley Phipps, and Coach Bill McCartney.  We were walking down this hall and there was this guy - he was tall, about 6’3” or 6’4”, tanned, sandy, curly like hair. He stopped me and began to talk to me and share some things with me that I know nobody knew but me and God.
I asked him “How long you been here?” He laughed and said “I just got here”. What’s your name, man? He said, “Michael”. After we finished talking we went on back – I didn’t think much of it. Now there wasn’t any more than maybe a 100 people there and this guy had on a tan looking suit, but I looked for that guy the whole time, the whole evening.  He should have stood out, but I didn’t see him anymore- he was gone.
After that conference, I continued to want to go to a Promise Keepers conference.  I first heard about it in 1990, it was in Boulder Colorado. Coach Bill McCartney was heading this Promise Keepers movement.  Finally, I got a chance to go. Now this is 1995. I wanted to go in 1991, ‘92, ‘93, ‘94 but 1995 came and they had the conference in Atlanta, Georgia so me and some brothers went.
During a time of worship, there was a guy sitting almost right in front of me.  This little guy stood up, looked back, and said “You know what; you’ve waited a long time for this, haven’t you?” It blew me away! How did he know I waited basically 5 years to go to one of those conferences? He laughed and turned around. This little guy was the spitting image of the guy I saw in Montgomery!
Sometimes God will put people in our path; we have to be careful because sometimes He does just that.
Prayer
God, we thank you for these men. We thank you for your word. We thank you for our experience with you. I pray God that those men who have not met you - I pray that they will meet you.
Lord at the intersection of life I know that we will all have to make a choice. We will all have to make a decision. I pray that these men that have not yet made a decision, that they will make a decision for you.
I pray that you will use me in whatever capacity to help them find their way. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
~J. T.