Today, I am reading and commenting on  Exodus 4-6.

In yesterday’s passage it mentions that Moses discovered an Egyptian beating an Israelite and Moses killed the Egyptian.  This resulted in Moses needing to flee Egypt.  It has struck me for some time that Moses killed the Egyptian because he was feeling God’s calling to help his people, but it was not God’s timing.  On two occasions in today’s passage Moses objects to God sending him to speak to Pharaoh because he is not well-spoken.  The first time Moses used his lack of eloquence as his last excuse in an attempt to convince God that he was the wrong man for the job.  God replied that since He had made people able to speak in the first place, He would be able to give Moses the ability to say the right thing at the right time: Moses only needed to put his faith in God.  The second time Moses used his inability to speak eloquently was after Pharaoh had rejected his initial request and the Israelites blamed Moses for Pharaoh’s reaction.  Moses had tried to do God’s will and had failed (as people would look at things).  At this point, Moses had “failed” twice to help the Israelites, once as a young man and now a second time as a mature adult.  He would “fail” nine more times before God would give him success.  These first two failures both made Moses want to give up, but God had other plans for him.  I want to highlight that even though from a human perspective Moses failed eleven times before he accomplished what he set out to do only the first of those failures was a actually a failure.  The first time Moses attempted to help his fellow Israelites, he acted on his own.  The other times he acted according to God’s command, and his “failure” was not a failure.  It was part of God’s plan.  So, if God has given you a mission and things do not go as you think they should do not be convinced that you have failed.  Continue to do God’s will, even when it doesn’t “work”, because success in God’s eyes is often not the same as success in our eyes.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.