#143 Everything I told you Exodus 6

28 Now when the Lord spoke to Moses in Egypt, 29 he said to him, “I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I tell you.”

30 But Moses said to the Lord, “Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. 2 You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt, 4 he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites. 5 And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.”

6 Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh. Exodus 6:28 - 7:7

Tell him everything I tell you. He does not ask us to be eloquent of speech, nor to make adjustments to the message. It is not our word to take license and omit those things we find unsavory, or worry that it may offend our audience. Do you really love people enough to cause yourself discomfort? It can be a bother at times. Some days you would rather go fishing than be a fisher of men, answering a never ending myriad of questions. Some days these questions will be from those who call you a brother in Christ. And what of those days when He ask us to witness to those that we have the most grievance with? I doubt Pharaoh cared much to hear the message. It did not fit within his world view, nor does the telling fit well with Moses. The Egyptians will know that He is Lord, and so will Moses, though he speaks with "faltering lips." Who am I that anyone should listen to me? It doesn't matter; it is the message that matters. 

  If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, 4he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, 5and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. 1 Timothy 6: 3-5

If it is about who I am, then it is not about Who He is, and I have probably laid the message to the side somewhere along the way. So what have I been saying? I think I should like to pray more often and not forsake my studies. I would love to be a better speaker, but I think it better to settle for more humility. I pray for the understanding, I beg for grace, and please help me to find the love of my fellow man that is not fettered by my ego or my love of convenience. A lot of people like you, but you don't tell them what He's told you. A lot of people hated Him, but He died for their sins.