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

Today, I am reading and commenting on Exodus 7-9.

    When Moses started his mission to rescue the Israelites from bondage in Egypt he must have felt that he was right to ask God to send someone else. He failed ten times before Pharaoh finally left the Israelites go (there are two more failures in tomorrow’s passage). Moses must have wondered, did he say the wrong thing? Or, did he time praying for relief from the plagues too soon? What could he, what should he have done different to get Pharaoh to fulfill his promise to let the Israelites go? Surely if he was just a little better at choosing his words, or timing his actions, he could have gotten Pharaoh to release the Israelites sooner. Yet, those failures were part of God’s plan. It turns out that they weren’t failures after all. The lesson in this passage is that we have not failed as long as we are doing the work which God has sent us to do.