How do you become who God’s calling you to be?

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How do you become the person that God's calling you to be? I've been reading the story of Moses and there are three specific things he does to go from being a poor communicator to the person God uses to part the Red Sea, setting the Israelites free from hundreds of years of slavery. How did he do it? First, he met with God. God appeared to him one day and gave him a specific calling. And Moses just accepted, right? No. He said, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" God said, "I will be with you." And they go into this back-and-forth conversation where God offers assurances to Moses, even signs to prove that it's real. But Moses still resists, sharing legitimate excuses like how he's not a good speaker, being slow of speech and tongue. And then he straight-up says, "Please, send someone else." Now, what's interesting here is although it says the Lord's anger burned against Moses, he didn't write him off. He understood what Moses thought his deficiencies were and gave him what he needed to get started right now. He told Moses he could take his brother. His brother will be the one to communicate, but Moses would still need to obey and be present. Now, is Moses embracing all who God's calling him to be? Not yet. We faced a lot of resistance, but he did the first thing. He met with God. Now, the second thing, just as important after meeting with God, the next heading in the Bible says, "Moses returns to Egypt." He obeyed without delay. The story goes on that Moses and his brother Aaron appear to God's people, the Israelites, letting them know God's going to set you free. Then they go to Pharaoh, the king over Egypt, and all the signs that God wanted Moses to do, what did Moses say? His brother Aaron did it. But Moses was still present and he obeyed without delay. Now, did Pharaoh let them go? No. And that's where number three is most important. Yes, we need to meet with God. Yes, we need to obey without delay. But the third thing Moses did to become the person God was calling him to be was to repeat. Pharaoh didn't let them go the first time, Moses met with God again, God gave him the next thing to do, and when that didn't work, he met with God again. Repeat. And what's interesting is at first, Aaron is the one communicating and performing the signs on behalf of God. Watch this. Turning the staff into the snake, God tells Moses, "Say to Aaron, take your staff and throw it down." Turning the Nile to blood, "Tell Aaron." Sending a plague of frogs, "Tell Aaron." Sending annoying gnats, "Tell Aaron." Now, each time they're doing the three things, meeting with God, obeying what he asks, and repeating it where God gives him the next thing to do. Now, something interesting starts to happen here, because the next word the last time God told Moses to tell Aaron. We now see Moses start to be the main communicator. God tells Moses, "Get up early in the morning and confront Pharaoh." After sending flies, the conversation was between Pharaoh and Moses. Striking down Egyptian animals, Lord said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Plague of boils, take handfuls of soot from a furnace and have Moses toss it into the air in presence of Pharaoh.'" So, as Moses goes back to God, then obeys God, repeats, and goes back to God, and obeys God, we see him stepping into the person who God called him to be. And it continued like this all the way through to raising a staff in front of the Red Sea, where God parts the waters, sets the Israelites free, seeing the vision of what God originally told him come to life. So, today, as we meet with God in our quiet time reading the Bible, having a conversation with him through the Holy Spirit, I'm praying that we will obey without delay, and not just do it once, but continue to come back to God over and over again, stepping more into the person that God has called us to be. Let's keep praying for each other today, friends. God bless.