Exodus 4:14a Then the Lord's anger burned against Moses (Even after the Lord had met all Moses' objections and concerns about taking on the mission that the Lord laid before Him, Moses has just said he would prefer the Lord would send someone else. The important idea here is not that the Lord became frustrated with Moses. The amazing point is that the Lord, though revealing to Moses and to us that He becomes frustrated, rather than turning His back on Moses, the Lord still chooses to engage with Him and respond to his needs. His frustration does not result in Moses' destruction, in his removal from the mission, or even in a decreased regard for this man, His designated leader. The Lord knew ahead of time what Moses' responses would be and yet did not allow those to disqualify him from that which the Lord had called him and, in fact, proceeded immediately to respond to Moses' deepest need by providing in His next statement a human helper for him. What a reassurance to us today! We can rest assured that the Lord's frustration with our inadequacies, with our timidity, with our self-centered focus, with our excuses, with our reluctance is also accompanied by His grace and mercy and provision for those deepest needs!)
