Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, January 15th. The remarkable Old Testament

stories that we love to read are ultimately about ordinary people who had extraordinary faith in God.

Today's podcast explains how you can choose to follow the way of faith. Why couldn't God have straightened Moses up quicker than 40 years on the back side of the desert?

Now, couldn't God have given him some burning bush experience over there in Egypt and said,

let's get on with this, Moses? Not only that. What about this? God knows everything. And the

Bible says that when Moses came back, he challenged Pharaoh to let the people go. And Pharaoh said no.

And so God began 10 plagues. Why 10? Wait a minute, God. We've been down here almost 400 years.

Just send him number 10.

That's all we're interested in.

Just send him to the 10th plague.

Because it was the 10th one that got the job done, killing every single first born in Egypt, unless the blood was on the doorlandland and the doorpost.

Why go through the first nine plagues? Why not one? The way of faith is sometimes the longest

way, and sometimes the way that it requires of us the most patience.

But it is also the way of oftentimes of the most misunderstanding.

When I think about Moses and how God worked in his life and think about the misunderstandings that he went through,

listen, over and over and over again, you know what they want to do?

They want to stone this man. I mean, he's brought him to the Red Sea, brought him out of Egyptian

captivity, all the things that have happened. And what they want to do when things don't go to suit

them, they want to stone him right there. He lived with misunderstanding, but he kept on trusting and

obeying God until they got to the promised land. Now, let me give you a couple examples. One example is enough

here. If I had been one of those Hebrews and all of a sudden we were camped down by the Red Sea.

I would be thinking, now wait a minute, Moses, if you're listening to God, the one thing God would never do is lead us in a trap.

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