Communication is often limited by prescribed rules. At school children learn to refrain from speaking until permission is granted. These limitations become more restrictive with age and maturity. At home a child is prohibited from speaking in a disrespectable tone of voice. These and other limitations will continue throughout life.
There are self-imposed limitations to communication. Members of certain families may go for days, even months, without speaking. These self-imposed limitations usually are anchored in some level of anger, or even hatred. Shyness grounded in anxiety and fear or in embarrassment can also diminish communication.
Moses believed he was handicapped as a speaker and would be a liability to God. When he realized what God could do with a handicap, his confidence improved. He later became God’s most distinguished prophet. The Apostle Paul declared, “I can do all things through Christ Jesus, who gives me strength.” Never doubt what God can do with you.
Moses replied, “I have never been a good speaker. I wasn’t
one before you spoke to me, and I’m not one now. I am slow at speaking, and I
can never think of what to say.” But the Lord answered, “Who makes people able
to speak or makes them deaf or unable to speak? Who gives them sight or makes
them blind? Don’t you know that I am the one who does these things? Now go!
When you speak, I will be with you and give you the words to say.”
~Exodus 4:10-12 Contemporary English Version
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