Good morning,

Exodus 5:23-For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.”

Moses came to realize that being obedient to God stirs up such opposition from the enemy, that it almost convinced him that serving such a God is not worth the trouble. Moses had in his mind that deliverance was going to be quick, when in reality deliverance is a very precise process, ordered perfectly by God if we trust Him and His timing.

Moses had the pressure as a leader of doing the right thing without knowing the consequences of doing it, but that’s following Jesus! There are consequences for doing what is right in a world system that goes completely against the Lordship of Christ. Jesus is The Truth that divides. People such as the foreman for the Israelites (vs.21), could not handle the short season of discomfort of Pharaoh’s backlash from Moses request, even though following Moses could’ve delivered them from 400 years of being a slave in Egypt!

Staying faithful to go through the process of seeing God bring deliverance in our life can be painful, frustrating, slow, and at times seem pointless. But God calls us to trust Him and watch Him do what He has planned to do in and through us. Though Moses may have been extremely frustrated with God at the time, by allowing people to be angry at him for being obedient, he continued to walk with God to see multitudes delivered through his sacrificial leadership.

Jesus said "blessed are the ones who are not offended by me". I pray you don’t mistake your expectations to be God’s timing for your deliverance, because it only offends you to fall away from your only Deliverer!

In His Love, Ld