Sometimes God puts us in situations where the calling feels too big to obey.
Do you ever find yourself in that situation?
Sunday’s sermon, on August 10, 2025, entitled “Too Big to Obey,” focuses on this predicament for Moses in Exodus 6:28 to 7:7.
God calls Moses to a daunting task. Even though God is sending him to tell the Pharaoh of the Egyptians to let the Israelites go and release them from slavery, God tells Moses at the same time that Pharaoh will not listen nor will he do what Moses asks of him.
To Moses, it maybe feels like he is being set up to fail. How can God ask him to go into a situation that looks like it will fail from the beginning?
When we face a daunting obstacle, we entertain the thought of quitting. Moses objects. He tells God he is a man of “uncircumcised lips,” (Ex 6:30) or as to say, he feels that he is morally unfit for the task.
Moses says he is disqualified because he is morally flawed. What he doesn’t realize is that God already knows this.
God restores Moses’ identity by telling him that He has placed him in a position of authority and that Aaron will speak for him. He also invites him to walk in His grace.
Our pastor emphasized in the sermon that our own validation will never be enough. If the calling feels too big, it is because we are placing the burden of the outcome on us.
And we can’t shoulder that burden if what you are being called to is actually going to work. We have to let go of ourselves and let go of the outcomes. We have to learn to not take it so seriously and let God do the work.
This mindset takes a big vision of who God is. Moses wants justice. And God lets him know that God Himself will be in charge of justice and vengeance against Egypt. In v. 6, He tells Moses that he will bring judgment on Egypt.
In the end, the calling won’t be a failure. Our pastor reiterated that Moses begins to understand God and cultivate a love for Him as Yahweh, a personal God. And he obeys when he decides to take the message to Pharaoh.
Loving who God is will propel us to trust Him and obey Him.
The calling we receive will feel too big if it feels like it's on us.
We must come to the end of ourselves and turn to Him and His sovereignty, trusting that he will accomplish a work through us.
As long as I realize that what God is calling me to is in His hands, then I can take the next step forward–and the next step, and the next step.
Only then will I stop feeling so overwhelmed.
The only thing I can do is this: trust that God will do a work through me despite my shortcomings.
Just like He did with Moses.
—Ann Elizabeth Yeager