No Other Rock

Why is it that Thous hast sent me? ~ Exodus 5:22

Yesterday, I lauded God’s timing. Today’s devotion does a similar thing, but much more eloquently than I could have by talking about Moses.

How many time shave you questioned God on why he was allowing something to happen (or not happen) to you? Have you ever felt God willing you to do something you didn’t want to do – but you did it and in doing so, you expected a successful outcome - except it backfired and it was not successful?

Such was the case with Moses. “Not only does Pharaoh disdainfully refuse to let the people go, he adds new rigours [sic] to the already pitiful lot of the slave-driven Israelites, so that the distraught Israelite captains bitterly accuse Moses and wish he had never shown his face again in Egypt (verse 21).”

But what do we learn from this failure? God’s timing and reasoning are not without reason.

Well, the truth is that the irony of refusal and the agony of recoil were graciously preparing Moses fo the greatest experience and mightiest service of his life. Immediate success might have been a cruelty rather than a kindness.

Moses, in being prepared for unequalled greatness, was being taught to trust and rely upon God alone.

Today, my prayer for you and I is that we will rely upon God alone through our struggles while knowing the best experiences are yet to come.