Here’s a question worth asking yourself, first thing after you awake from sleep each day… Am I available today? For this question to be of great significance, you need to imagine that God is the One who is asking you… Are you available today?

In the Book of Exodus, we learn that the children of Israel, numbering in excess of two-million, petitioned God to be rescued from their 400-years of slavery in Egypt, under Pharaoh. In chapter 3, verses 7-8a, God is recorded as saying, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. So, I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land.”

Further reading of the Exodus account reveals that God did indeed rescue His people! But, the thrust of this article is my question, how did God execute their release?’ In short, God used His remarkable avail-able method. What do I mean?

By His omnipotence (all-powerful), God could have easily commanded Pharaoh to set-free His people. And, in an instant they would have been free! However, God didn’t. Instead, He chose to work through a human-agent, namely, Moses.

We are now in the Sinai wilderness, at the Mountain of God, where Moses first encountered God in his 80-years of life on earth (3:1): An interesting conversation took place between God and a startled Moses. In short, the conversation was about God commissioning Moses to go and confront Pharaoh for the release of His people (3:4ff). Although this story is well known, the principle that ‘God often works through human-agents’ is not!

Humanly speaking, this assignment was ‘mission-impossible’! But God did not ask Moses to do the job alone, but in partnership with Him. Partnership means that each of the partners has a part to play – Moses’ part was to ‘avail’ himself while God’s part was to be ‘able’. Now, when you join together avail with able, you get available! In other words, Moses was asked to be the visible glove for God’s all-powerful, invisible hand… no more!  Moses would go, God would do!

Are you an avail-able believer? We’ve been saved to serve God – to rescue the diabolically oppressed of this world! Unless you are available, you will not hear God say to you, “Now go, for I am sending you to…….” (3:10).   

Best wishes, 

Bill Joukhadar