I’m reading through the Old Testament in my One Year Chronological Bible right now. For some reason, the Old Testament has been rocking my world like never before. Some of it is having a different understanding after reading Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell, but some of it is just realizing that these guys are the giants, the heroes of the Bible.

12 Moses said to the Lord, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’ 15 Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. 16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?” 17 And the Lord said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.”

This is a few passages from Exodus 33. The first time I read through this I thought, “geez, Moses is sure stuck on himself.” He asks questions like, “how will anyone know you are pleased with me, or what will distinguish me?” I thought Moses had some guts to ask God that. Then I read it again and noticed the first phrase of verse 12, “You have been telling me to lead these people.” Wow, Moses could be so confident in asking God to distinguish himself and make himself stick out, b/c he understood his calling. He knew he was supposed to lead the people, not anyone else.

Are you that confident in your calling? If not, how can you gain that confidence?