NOT EVEN BEGUN
Today's reading: Exodus 5-8

"Since I gave Pharoah your message, he has been even more brutal to your people. You have not even begun to rescue them!" Exodus 5:23 NLT

Ever felt like Moses?

The Moses who began his ministry in a basket in the Nile River?

The Moses who was raised in luxury at the enemy's expense?

The Moses who did something bad, tried to hide and was found by God on the backside of the desert? 

The Moses who told God, THE GOD WHO MADE HIM, that he couldn't possibly do what God was asking him to do?

Or--and I'm afraid this is the 'Moses' I can relate to--the Moses that had the audacity to stand up to God and say, 'You've not even begun to answer my prayers!'

I don't see anything happening, Lord!

I can't see you stepping in yet!

Where are the answers You have promised me?

Sadly, that particular Moses is the one I most closely resemble. The Moses I can identify with. The Moses I could most easily be.

But God had been at work in the background of the Israelite dilemna--and He's in my problems, too.

God was orchestrating events for the perfect time and place in Egypt--and right here where I sit in my prayer chair.

There was an appointed time, place and way in which God would work to change Pharoah's heart--and an appointment with each and every request I have laid at His feet.

We might think God hasn't even begun to work, but friend, we don't see everything He is up to!