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No matter where you are right now, God has a plan for you that is good.
Moses spent 40 years as a refugee, figuring his life was pretty much over because he had blown it very badly. Then God moved in and changed everything.
When God appears to him in a burning bush and tells him he is to set his people free from the tyranny of Pharaoh, Moses insists that he cannot do it. “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” he asked. God said, “I will be with you. I am who I am, and you will tell the Israelites that ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
Moses asked, “Who am I?” but God said, “I will be with you.” Moses was asking the wrong question. He was looking at himself and judging—rightly so—that he couldn’t do this job God was calling him to do. God simply ignored his question and told him what he needed to know: “I will be with you. I AM has sent you.”
If you’re looking at yourself and asking, “Who am I?”, then you need to change your focus and change your question. Ask instead, “God, will you be with me?” It’s good to be humble, but when we focus on ourselves instead of on God, then that’s not real humility; that’s lack of faith and doubting and fear.
Moses is right—by himself he is not capable of doing what God is calling him to do. But that’s not the point! God is going to do it through Moses!
Paul wrote to the Philippians: “Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6).
I so hope you are encouraged to believe that with God, it’s all Plan A, and if you will entrust your life into his plan, he’ll take the pieces of your life’s puzzle and put it together in a beautiful mosaic displaying to the world the glory of God in you.
(The story of Moses mentioned can be found in Exodus chapters 2 and 3.)