Title Are You Still Going?
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Exodus 7:1-7
Are you still going?
In Exodus 3, God is present on Mount Horeb to meet Moses. God, who said, “I am the Lord,” tells Moses to go to Pharaoh in Egypt. So is Moses obedient? He expresses his situation and refuses repeatedly. In chapter 4, Moses experiences God's miracle and eventually goes to Pharaoh. Then shouldn't everything be fine? But Moses goes to Pharaoh and is rejected. Not only will they be completely humiliated, but the people of Israel will suffer more than ever before. Moses' position became very difficult. ‘Why are you sending this people to be mistreated?’ So Moses’ protest appears in Exodus 5. And in Exodus 6, God's promise appears once again, "I am the LORD." “I will bring you out, deliver you, and redeem you, and I will make you my people, and I will be your God.”
In Exodus 3 to 7, God’s command to ‘go’ and ‘I can’t go. It's a repeating process of saying 'go' again. Who is God wrestling with now? Not Pharaoh, but Moses. It is Moses, not Pharaoh, whom God breaks and breaks. God's interest and progress in saving the people of Israel from Pharaoh is centered on Moses. It is nothing that God subdues Pharaoh. It is changing Moses, who struggles to say that God is not interested, so that he trusts and obeys only God. This is God's training. This is why God's explanation is lengthy and he is patient and patient.
Faith is acknowledging that I am nothing before God. It is throwing away what you have judged by your own thoughts. ‘I have a dull mouth. What will Pharaoh see and listen to me? Are you going anyway?’ Isn’t this Moses’ idea and not his argument? Why does Moses make this claim? Because they compare Pharaoh with God. Comparing God with Pharaoh, Moses is thinking of Pharaoh as greater than who is greater. I think Pharaoh is the greatest person on earth. So that's why it's difficult.
But God says that he will make Moses like a god before Pharaoh (verse 1). I will make you like a god to Pharaoh when God sends a little one who is not a big deal to the greatest person on earth, has a dull mouth, and returns after being completely defeated. Even the greatest person on this earth cannot resist before God because when God sends him, he performs divine powers on him. It is a bar that has hitherto been regarded as an impossible existence that cannot be overcome. Now, struggling with God's intervention will be futile. is to go. So it is to go. Moses asks, 'Are you going anyway?' But God says, 'So go.'
What Moses did not know was that the protagonist of this battle was not Moses himself, but God. Moses only needs to obey. Rather, God speaks more leisurely. If you go, Pharaoh will not listen to you at first. He says it will get stronger. So there will be all sorts of obstacles. However, in the end it will be what I said. Not because Moses was great. It is because of the power of the living God to perform miracles in the land of Egypt. It's exciting. What Moses was doing was to put God's work in front of Pharaoh.
Pharaoh listens to Moses and reveals who the Lord is and how hard he is. But God clearly reveals God's plan for the future so that I will know that I am Jehovah.
Defeat happens within us. I don't think it's okay to see your shabby self right in front of you. Because they think that Pharaoh is greater than God. Even if it seems impossible when we are faced with a wall of discouragement and frustration, God's plan remains the same. Even the greatest person on the earth is nothing before God. It is not even subject to change. Likewise, Moses is nothing on earth before God. But it is God's special grace that makes them the most powerful. Why did you give me this grace? It is because of the providence of God through Moses. I hope that the hesitation of 'I'm going anyway' will obey with 'the faith that goes that way'.