I Can, Can't I?

I Cor 1:27 "But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty."

I was doing some reading about when God called Moses to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. The thought crossed my mind that since Moses was saved from Pharaoh as a child and raised in Pharaoh's house to prepare him for God's call on his life, that he should have know that at some point God was going to come calling. We don't know what was going on in Moses' life when he fled to the wilderness and spent the next 40 years tending his father-in-law's sheep, but could it have been that he was trying to run and hide? We have no idea what Moses may have been thinking when he saw the burning bush and heard the voice of God, but could he have thought "I've been found"? It is also interesting to me that since Moses had been born and saved for this purpose, and no doubt been told that by his parents growing up, that Moses was so quick to make excuses why he couldn't do it. If you will notice in Ex 3 & 4, Moses gives 4 reasons why he is not the man for the job. Man has an element of pride about him and doesn't like to admit that there may actually be something that he can't do. Isn't it amazing how that "I am a pretty capable guy, until I need to be incapable, so as to not be able to do something that I don't really want to do in the first place". (Did I really say that?) But God gave him one good reason why he was the man for the job and that was simply because God said "I will be with you and would empower you to do it". Later, Paul would explain it like this "I can do all things through Christ which strengthenth me" Phil 4:13. So, when we realize that God has something for us to do, remember, we can do it. No excuses now.