Aaron spoke yesterday from Exodus 4-14. This is the story of a people being born. God tells Moses what Moses is to do and also that it will not work (Ex 4:21). But Moses maybe doesn't grasp this at first.
Here was Moses getting his "marching orders" directly from God, doing exactly what God told him to do, and there were problems. We cannot predict outcomes and what God is doing based on our current circumstances. (Think about Joseph in prison.)
Moses might have thought (and maybe sometimes we think): "God, what are you doing? Why drag out this process of redemption?" But God "just fixing" the problem doesn't show His glory. And remember that is God's ultimate aim: His glory.
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Recall the lyrics from Matt Redman's Blessed Be Your Name:
Blessed be Your name when the sun’s shining
down on me
When the world’s “all as it should be”
Blessed be Your name
And blessed be Your name on the road marked
with suffering
Though there’s pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name
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