When Imelda Marcos was criticized for having 3,000 pairs of shoes in her closet, her excuse was: "Everybody kept their shoes there. The maids ... everybody."1 When Zsa Zsa Gabor slapped a Beverly Hills policeman, her excuse was: "I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun. We are Hungarian freedom fighters."2 Moses balked when God spoke directly to him, asking him to go liberate a nation of slaves. Moses' excuse was, "I'm not very good with words."

None of these excuses worked. Moses was God's choice even though he was not a natural for the job. He was a Hebrew raised in an Egyptian home and married into a Midianite family. He had, by his own admission, no answers, no authority, no talent for making speeches. Moses wasn't looking for the job. He was drafted. …