LORD, Please Send Someone Else!

How often do you find yourself feeling unprepared to carry out a task the LORD is handing you? If you are like me, it is certainly more often than I would like. Simply feeling capable of carrying out an assignment from the LORD brings up within me those feelings of inadequacy and incompetency. LORD, there must be someone around here better equipped to carry out Your awesome task. You know what I mean? You been there before? Certainly, we all have at one time or another. 

The fact is most of GOD’s servants have had similar feelings in similar situations. Think about what Moses said when GOD sent him to speak to pharoah. “Moses said to the LORD, ‘O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.’ The LORD said to him, ‘Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.’ But Moses said, ‘O Lord, please send someone else to do it'” (Exodus 4:10-13).

Moses was overcome with feelings inadequacy and begged the LORD to choose someone else for the job. But GOD knew different. Certainly, He recognized Moses’ inabilities. But, GOD only needed a vessel willing to be used. He only required a humble attitude in Moses that was willing to say, “Yes, LORD, send me, use me!” When Moses did submit to the LORD, we all know the great things GOD carried out through him.

You and I are in that same spot right now. GOD is wanting to manifest His power and His goodness through us. He is wanting to reveal to this lost world how mighty and powerful He really is. And He wants to do that through you and I! He wants us humbly say to Him, “YES, LORD, here I am, send me, use me!” Through His people, He desires to do great and mighty works.

Instead of saying, LORD, please someone else, I encourage you today to step up to the plate as GOD lays out His assignment for you and say, YES, LORD, take me, use me, LORD, to impact my world by your great power.