August 2

Speak What He Teaches

Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say. — Exod 4:12 BSB

Many true servants of the Lord struggle with being slow of speech. When called upon to speak for Him, they fear they may do more harm than good due to their lack of eloquence. In such moments, it’s good to remember that the Lord made the very tongue we consider slow, and we must be careful not to blame our Creator. A slow tongue may not be as great an issue as a fast one, and fewer words may be a greater blessing than an overflow of them. We must remember that true power doesn’t rest in human rhetoric, with its fancy words and clever phrases. Lack of fluency is not the disadvantage it seems.

If God is with our mouth and our mind, we have something far better than eloquence: we have His wisdom and power. Pharaoh had more to fear from the stammering Moses than from the most eloquent speaker in Egypt, for Moses’ words carried divine authority—they spoke plagues and death. If the Lord is with us in our natural weakness, we are armed with supernatural power. Therefore, let us speak boldly for Jesus, as we ought to speak.