{"id":1002,"date":"2009-06-01T05:45:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2009-06-01T05:45:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T13:45:10","slug":"here-am-i-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2009\/here-am-i-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Am I"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=150 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Exodus 3:1-15<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Moses said early on in his famous encounter with God:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (4).<\/p>\n<p>That seems to me a sensible enough response. Natural, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>God has more to say than &#8220;Moses, Moses&#8221; &#8212; so He says it&#8230;and eventually comes to this:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (10).<\/p>\n<p>Moses has another &#8220;sensible enough&#8221; response. Alas, what was required was a response based on and triggered by faith, which often can &#8220;feel&#8221; quite senseless: &#8220;Here am I.&#8221; Instead, we have this:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (11).<\/p>\n<p>I need faith and courage to answer God correctly.<\/p>\n<p>(And that, my friend, is my introduction for you to the next Sunday School lesson.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/ofthyfather-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/ofthyfather-s.jpg\" alt=\"[I am the God of thy father (Exodus 3:6)]\" title=\"I am the God of thy father (Exodus 3:6)\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>from Exodus 3:6<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading: Exodus 3:1-15 That&#8217;s what Moses said early on in his famous encounter with God: &#8220;And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. 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