Bibledoorajar: "Now Wait Just a Minute"

     Things were not going too well with gaining freedom from Pharoah. God had told Moses that He was going to harden Pharoah's heart, but even Moses seemed to have wondered how long God would continue to let His people suffer at the hands of Pharoah. The foremen of the work crews were having a hard time making bricks without straw. The situation was really bad. The foreman accused Moses and Aaron of causing their people to be offensive to Pharoah and subjecting them to death.  Moses and Aaron were leaders with a bad situation on their hands. Finally, Moses went to God and said in a nutshell, "How long are you going to do evil toward your people?" Here are his comments from the Living Bible Version:

    " Then Moses went back to the Lord. 'Lord, he protested, how can you mistreat your own people like this? Why did you ever send me, if you were going to do this to them? Ever since I gave Pharoah your message, he has only been more and more brutal to them, and you have not delivered them at all!"  Exodus 5: 22ff.

     When I read this, my imagination hears God saying, "now just a minute, who do you think you are young man?" But there is nothing in the scripture about God calling Moses to task. Instead, He patiently reminded Moses that Pharoah would have to be forced to let the people go, but in the end Pharoah would gladly drive them out of his land. And then God reminded Moses of who He was: the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They were not made privy of His name Jehovah, but Moses did know Him as Jehovah----Sacred---Covenant Keeping. Just a minute, Moses, steady on, don't lose sight of who I am.

     In the face of evil today, God has said to overcome it with good. A good like Jesus exemplified over and over. We must pray for deliverance from evil, but we can also get to doing good always remembering the Sacred.
     "Our Father who is in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever. Amen." Let's just wait a minute and ponder that.