Moses and Life

Good afternoon,
not a big jump into afternoon but it is afternoon none the less. I came to understand something this morning as I was doing my bible study and devotions. Its not a new realisation, but its one I thought I would share. 
I start in Exodus. When The Lord our God (I am who I am) came to Moses. Moses said no...I cant do this , I am afraid. I simple cannot do what your asking of me, I am not good enough and I was never a good speaker.  Yet God insisted and said,  "But I will be with you". In fact repeatedly God said to Moses, I will be with you. God went even deeper then that and said , "who has made a mans mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now therefore go and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak" (Exodus 4:11-12) . Yet still , after all was said and done Moses still didn't have the confidence to open his mouth and speak the words the Lord was telling him to speak. So God handed Moses Aaron and allowed him to be the mouth of Moses.  It surprises and confuses me that God would do such a thing, but He knew that this was not going to be an easy job for Moses. This was not going to be something that Moses was able to just walk into the King of Egypt and sing in Broadway fashion , "Let my people go", and they would be allowed to go.  God knew that this was going to be a journey , he already knew the walk that was going to take place and he knew that if Moses was walking into this before anything had actually really happened with fear, that the things that were going to/had to  transpire would need confidence , love and support. I believe that God could have given Moses the confidence that he needed to walk this journey on his own but he choose not to, mainly because Moses didn't ask, but none the less  in enters Aaron. The Lord sent these two men to the King of Egypt, knowing full well that the Kings heart would be hardened and that it would take blood water,  frogs, gnats, flies, dying livestock , boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and even the death of the first born males across the board before Egypt would beg for the people of Israel to leave. Would you want to go through this alone?  even with a confident faith in God and His works and knowing that you never are truly alone. God knew this. He knew that Moses would need a fellow human, he made him lack the confidence he needed. He knew that people of Egypt would be hard.  He knew this because he did it. "The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh , and he did not listen to them , as the Lord had spoken to Moses." (Exodus 9:12) . Again and Again he hardened the hearts of the Egyptians towards the people of Israel. "Go into Pharaoh , for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among you."  (exodus 10:1)
God made everything the way  it needed to be to go the people of that time to not only see the signs of God, His grace and mercy, but also to prove to the people that he was powerful enough to do it. We have a God of love, power, justice and grace. He is soooo powerful that He can change everything in order to get to the end he needs us to be at.  God has the power to give and to take away . He has the power to make a man stubborn or to make him listen. However without our asking and with His grace and consent ...nothing will happen. When you feel as if God is not listening to you, instead of asking why He sisnt there, ask why you cannot hear.  Moses and Aaron want to be moved and used by God, therefor they were....in the way that God needed them to be.  God made the Egyptians stubborn till he needed them to be stubborn no longer, "and the Lord had given the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked". It is not only a case of the Egyptian people being worn down therefore finally giving in , because as we have seen God could have kept it going . It was more a matter of perfect timing , His timing. perfect asking, His asking and perfect trust, our trust.
We need to remember as one of Gods children , that we are not in control. We need to give the power to our God, and let Him take the wheel. This is the truth to full acceptance of our lives, and the key to being able to get through times of triumph , but even more so times of pain and suffering. Listen and follow, Let Him , the true "I AM" lead the way, even when it doesnt make sence.
In HIs Light