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Exodus chapter 5 verses 22 and 23

then Moses turned to the Lord and said, oh Lord, why have you done evil to this people?

Why did you ever send me?

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. This is a low point in Moses' life and leadership and

I'm guessing it's familiar to many, if not all of us.

So Moses has obeyed God.

He has done what God called him to do. He's gone to Pharaoh, King of Egypt, he's told him to let the

Israelites go out of slavery and as a result of Moses's obedience things have gotten harder, like worse for the

Israelites in Egypt. They're experiencing greater suffering as a result of Moses's

obedience to God and Moses is feeling the effects of that personally. I mean he is

at a low point because everybody is pointing to him as the reason why all these people are experiencing suffering

And so Moses goes back to God and says God I don't understand I'm doing what you told me to do

Why is this happening? So have you ever obeyed God only to find

your circumstances in this world not getting better actually getting harder

worse in some ways. I think about all kinds of people who trust in Christ for salvation

and that actually leads to all kinds of difficulties and challenges in the

world and Jesus promises this in the new testament so this is where we need to

step back and remember that we must never judge God's ways in the short term.

That is always unwise because obedience to God may sometimes lead to worse circumstances in the short term.

But the key is the short term because we can always trust that in the long term

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