October 25th
When men speak of what they know and from the depths of their souls testify to what they have seen, they speak with what we call, eloquence, for true eloquence is speaking from the soul. Thus David spoke of what he knew—what he had verified all his life—and this rendered him truly eloquent. As “truth is stranger than fiction,” so the truth that David spoke is more sweet than even fancy could have imagined. And it has more beauty than even the dream of the enthusiast could have pictured.
Charles Spurgeon in The Good Shepherd
But Moses replied to the Lord [after the burning bush… and being given a whole speech to give to the leaders of Israel… and the snake/staff thing… and the temporary leprosy thing] “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent —either in the past or recently or since You have been speaking to Your servant— because I am slow and hesitant in speech.”
The Lord said to him, “Who made the human mouth? Who makes him mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say.”
Exodus 4:10-12 (HCSB)
…and then Moses said “Please, Lord, send someone else,” (which was pretty stupid, but then he was rather new to all this). Upon which the Lord got really angry and essentially established the priesthood, which I feel is sort of a disproportionate response, given everything that came after, but he’s the boss.
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