But Moses said before the Lord, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh heed me?” So the Lord said to Moses: “See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you. And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land. (Exodus 6:30, 7:1, 2 NKJV)
Have you ever been in a position where an impediment, weakness or imperfection you have looms bigger in your sight and consciousness than every other thing? It might be something in your background, history, experience, family, body or mind. Something that makes you think you do not measure up with others . Something that has conditioned your mind to think of yourself in a particular way- less capable or viable than others. Something you have grown up knowing about yourself.
Moses was in that position. He had some impediment in his speech. As a result of this, he had accepted the label of someone with uncircumcised lips. Uncircumcision in those days portrayed an image of imperfection or deformity. This was how Moses saw himself. He was imperfect in speech. He was inferior to others and didn't expect any result from speaking to Pharaoh. He concluded that Pharaoh could hardly hear him speak because of this speech impediment. Someone else would be better for the job. In fact, his first experience at attempting to speak to Pharaoh didn't turn out well. He had an experience of seeming failure that to him confirmed his incapability.
However, God doesn't look at us the way we look at ourselves. Our weaknesses and incapabilities do not faze him or deter him from calling us to His ordained assignments for us. This is because He sees us differently. He looks at us with different spectacles than we use. He told Moses, in essence: "You see yourself with uncircumcised lips, but I see you as I have made you, a god, with your brother as your prophet. Now see yourself correctly and go and do what I sent you to do- speak to Pharaoh!"
A god! Moses saw himself incapable but God saw him capable. He saw himself limited, but God saw him without limitations. Isn't this the way it is with us.
God sees us righteous in Him, but we persist in seeing ourselves as sinners
He see us as accepted in Him, but we see ourselves as outcasts
He sees us endued with His strength, but we see ourselves clothed in weaknesses
He sees us blessed, but we see ourselves generationally cursed
He sees us as more than conquerors but we hold on to our images of defeat
He sees us abundantly supplied, but we see ourselves in lack
He sees us healed by His stripes, but we are sure we are sick- our symptoms confirming it.
God does not ask you to deny the physical realities of your life. That would be lying. However He wants you to look beyond them and see yourself as He sees you. He wants you to take on a new image within you of His sufficiency and grace which is more than enough for your weaknesses. He want you to put on His glasses and see yourself the way He sees you.
"And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me". (2 Corinthians 12:9 NKJV)
If God commanded the stammerer, Moses, to speak, then He is commanding you also to rise above you weaknesses, depending on His grace, to do what He's summoned you to. He's telling you to see yourself through His own spectacles. When you wear the spectacles of God, you see yourself and everything differently because His spectacles are grace spectacles.
Decision of the Day:
I choose to look at myself and other things not through my own eyes but through God's looking glasses. His word reveals to me His view of things. This will be my view. I will rise about very limitation by factoring in His grace which is more than enough for me.
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