The ASSURANCE Boost We Need

DECEMBER 12, 2025

Exodus 3: 11-12

“Moses said, ‘WHO AM I to go to the king and lead your people out of Egypt?’ God replied, ‘I WILL BE WITH YOU.’”

In the context of our Bible verses today we see that Moses was hit with two big questions at the same time: “Who is God?” and “Who am I?” God was calling him to step up as a leader for His people, people who were stuck under the heavy, crushing rule of a brutal king. God’s plan was for Moses to help lead them out of Egypt and out from under Pharaoh’s tight grip.

Sounds like a massive assignment, and Moses knew it. In fact, he was quite sure he didn’t qualify at all. I imagine him looking around for an exit, hoping this whole calling might have been a mistake. Moses had just come back from years in exile, he’d been living as an ordinary shepherd, he was getting older, and on top of that, he wasn’t even from Egypt. From Moses’ point of view, Pharaoh had all the power and he had none.

God wanted Moses to shift his focus from his own limitations to the limitless power of what God could accomplish. God’s plan was to use Moses as part of something much bigger, to rescue His people. And then God gives Moses this bold, beautiful promise: “I will be with you.” In this honest converstaion, God was saying that He would guide Moses, sustain Moses, and make sure the story ended well.

We are not all that different from Moses, are we? I mean when we face tough or overwhelming situations, we start asking the same questions about who we are and who God is. And in those moments, haven't you found that God gives us the same reassuring promise that He gave to Moses: “I will be with you.”

During the Advent and Christmas season, our attention turns to Jesus, the Word made flesh, the promised Savior who came near. And in His coming, He tells each of us the same thing: He is present with us. Right now.

I wonder if we can be so focused on our perceived inabilities and shortcomings that we miss the great reality that God is our savior and is always present with us. Can we see God as our Redeemer and guide? Do we live out of the amazing truth of what the apostle Paul wrote about, “I can do all things through Christ who gives me the strength”?

So today, well everyday, let’s hold on to God’s promise.

“I will be with you.”