"But I know that the king of Egypt will not permit you to go, except under compulsion. So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go."
The Israelites were hard pressed and persecuted. They were worked very hard and treated very badly, and in this state they cried out to the Lord for deliverance. Then Moses came... and things got worse! God sent them the person who would deliver them and the Israelites began to complain about him also! Why? Because they said "he made things worse before he made them better." Did he though? In reality, it was the hardness of the Pharaoh's heart that made things harder, not Moses. Moses was simply God's catalyst to bring about the change they were praying for. However, to bring about that change, God had to change something in Pharaoh's heart, and to do this He had to allow a little more suffering into the lives of the Israelites. When we are in a situation where it is bad, we pray, and it seems to get worse, we need to cling to the fact that God promises not to abandon us. It might be that our suffering is God's way of reaching out to someone else, teaching someone else, or forming someone else into the person they need to be to accomplish His will. Don't loose hope and don't blame those God sends into your life. Rather, praise God that He has heard your prayers and wait in expectation, no matter how bad it might get.
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