Moses resists God’s selection of him as the one to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt in today’s first reading. Moses doesn’t trust God’s judgment, Fr Charlie believes, because Moses doesn’t trust himself. In the end, Moses agrees to lead Israel because “I AM” promises to be with him. We, too, can accomplish anything God asks of us because, like Moses, “I AM” is always with us.
“I am the God of your father [the Lord said to Moses,] … I will send you to Pharaoh to lead my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. “But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and lead the children of Israel out of Egypt?” He answered, “I will be with you.”
EX 3:1-6, 9-12
“No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him.”
MT 11:25-27