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that some do, who have not the tenth part of his sense. St. Paul's speech was contemptible, 2Co 10:10. A great deal of wisdom and true worth is concealed by a slow tongue.
(2.) God is pleased sometimes to make choice of those as his messengers who have fewest of the advantages of art or nature, that his grace in them may appear the more glorious. Christ's disciples were no orators, till the Spirit made them such.
11 And the Lord said unto him, who hath made man’s mouth? Or
who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I the Lord?
How God condescends to answer all his excuses. Though the anger of the Lord was kindled against him (Ex 4:14), yet he continued to reason with him, till he had overcome him.
Note, Even self-diffidence, when it grows into an extreme--when it either hinders us from duty or clogs us in duty, or when it discourages our dependence upon the grace of God--is very displeasing to him. God justly resents our backwardness to serve him, and has reason to take it ill; for he is such a benefactor as is before-hand with us, and such a rewarder as will not be behind-hand with us. Note further, God is justly displeased with those whom yet he does not reject: he vouchsafes to reason the case even with his froward children, and overcomes them, as he did Moses here, with grace and kindness.
To balance the weakness of Moses, he here reminds him of his own power, Ex 4:11.
(1.) His power in that concerning which Moses made the objection: Who has made man's mouth? Have not I the Lord? Moses knew that God made man, but he must be reminded now that God made man's mouth. An eye to God as Creator would help us over a great many of the difficulties which lie in the way of our duty, Ps 124:8. God, as the author of nature,