Exodus 5:22 Moses returned to the Lord and said, "Why, Lord, why have You brought trouble on this people? Is this why You sent me? (Even though Moses had obeyed the Lord and had spoken God's message to Pharaoh to let His people go, Pharaoh had refused and had even imposed much harsher conditions on the people and their labor by forcing them to provide their own straw with which to make the bricks they were required to produce. Now Moses is insecure and uncertain about the Lord's intentions for him and for the Israelite people and returns to the Lord to lay out his questions to Him. The lesson here for us is that when Moses seemed to have failed, when he was confused and fearful, when circumstances had not unfolded the way he had hoped and expected, when circumstances had deteriorated into devastating results, instead of fretting inwardly, instead of bottling up his frustrations, instead of throwing up his hands in despair, instead of turning away from God and from his mission, he returns to the Lord where he pours out his honest questions and concerns to the Lord. Today, the best place to voice our alarms and disappointments is to the Person Who has sovereign control over all our needs.)
