Exodus 5:23 "Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your Name, he has brought trouble on this people, and You have not rescued Your people at all." (Because Moses was still looking at the situation through his own eyes, because he saw Pharaoh's failure to respond to God's command, he saw his mission to deliver God's people from bondage as having failed. Again, as we so often do, instead of focusing on the Lord, Moses allowed his assessment to cloud his perspective and to blur his view of the Mighty God Who had appeared and spoken to him. Like Moses, we often apply our own measures of success and failure to the situations the Lord has allowed to cross our paths. Like Moses, we need to learn that the Lord's plans supersede and far surpass what we can grasp through our own perspective. Rather than being defeated, the Lord had actually raised up this Pharaoh in order to draw a visible and instructive picture of the Lord's grand and sovereign power and glory. We can be assured that He is still doing that very thing today in our lives. What may look like abject failure to us may be the Lord fulfilling still His grand and sovereign power and glory in our lives. As we continue to pour out our hearts to the Lord as Moses did, and as the Lord continues to invite us into His presence with our questions just as He did with Moses, we open a path through which the Lord can minister to our confusion and hurts.)
