1665) I don’t think I know of anyone who enjoys having a backseat driver. You know, the person who tries to tell you, sometimes assertively, how you’re supposed to be driving? I know. I hear you grinding your teeth.

Has it ever occurred to you you might be called by God to be a backseat driver? Look in Exodus 4:14-16. Here, Moses is at the burning bush and he’s giving God every reason he should not be the one to go to Pharaoh and ask him to let God’s people leave slavery. God replies with anger that he will send Moses’ brother Aaron to go with him and speak for him. Aaron was to be a backseat driver.

I think it’s easy to focus on Moses and the relief he must have felt to have Aaron go with him, but have you ever considered what it would be like for Aaron? I wouldn’t want to be the backup plan for someone who will get credit for all interactions with Pharaoh and the ultimate freedom from slavery for the Hebrews.

It occurs to me that sometimes we are called solely to support the one doing the great work of God. What’s sticks out to me even more is the knowledge that this backseat driving is just as important as what the front-seat driver is doing.