Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

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I'm Tanya Wilmeth and right now we're in the book of Exodus. I wonder if you're

fighting against God. No, it may not look like what you think. See when we think of fighting against God, probably a picture of

Pharaoh comes to our mind or maybe a Pontius Pilate or maybe another historical

tyrant. Maybe it's a current leader or public figure that's just blatantly oppressing people or maybe a group of people living way outside the lines.

But last week I was sitting in my kitchen island with a friend and we both realized we'd recently been through seasons that were

tiresome and disappointing and at least some of it was by our own design. So we

realized we've been fighting against what the Lord had for us.

And it looked like wanting something we didn't have

and wishing and worrying for a season

other than the one we were in.

At the root, we were believing

and placing our hope in something other than God and neither one of us had really been able to see this on our own.

It came out in dissatisfaction and striving, but we were good at disguising it even to ourselves.

So good we didn't realize we'd been doing it.

Now if we didn't know the end of the story we could read the story of the

plagues in Exodus with hope that Pharaoh would figure it out and stop resisting

God. By the time we get to the final plague, the patience of the Lord is paramount.

Nine times he used Moses to warn Pharaoh that if he didn't release the Israelites,

a plague would come upon the people.

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