God Tells Moses to Speak to Pharoah (Ex. 6:28-30)

3/25/2008 8:36 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time  Focus:  God tells Moses to Speak to Pharaoh
Bible Reading & Meditation  Reference:  Exodus 6:28-30
 Message of the verses:  “28  Now it came about on the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,  29  that the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "I am the LORD; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you."
30  But Moses said before the LORD, "Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?"
1 ¶  Then the LORD said to Moses, "See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.  2  "You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.  3  "But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.  4  "When Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments.  5  "The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst."  6  So Moses and Aaron did it; as the LORD commanded them, thus they did.  7  Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.”
After the genealogies of Moses and Aaron were given in the previous verses God speaks to Moses telling him to go to Pharaoh what He will tell him to speak.  Moses was probably still discouraged because of the confrontation that he had with the leaders of the tribes of Israel and so he tells the Lord again about his problem with speaking and says that because of this Pharaoh would not listen to him.  It is possible that Moses’ problem was stuttering and because he was upset that would make him stutter even more, at any rate this was an excuse.
In verse one of chapter seven God tells Moses that He will make him as God to Pharaoh, and the Hebrew word is Elohim and means god and is sometimes translated as angles.  God is telling Moses that he will represent God to Pharaoh and that Aaron will be his prophet and to the speaking to Pharaoh, however later on Moses will be the one doing the speaking.
In verse three God tells Moses that He will harden the heart of Pharaoh in order to multiply His signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.  Pharaoh’s heart was hardened on his own at first and then God completed the process of hardening Pharaoh’s heart in order to prove to him and the people of Egypt and also the people of Israel that He was God.  These signs and wonders were also against some of the god’s that were worshiped by the people of Egypt and also some of the sons of Israel were also worshiping these gods and so through these signs and wonders God would show them that He alone was God and worthy of their worship.
Moses and Aaron obeyed the Lord and did as He told them to do and verse seven gives the ages of Moses and Aaron when this process began.
Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I can understand somewhat how Moses felt and why he gave his excuses to the Lord about his problem of not being able to speak.  If his problem was stuttering I am sure that he was very embarrassed about it and did not want to stutter in front of Pharaoh, for they would surely make fun of him for doing so.  I sometimes make the excuse of having IBS in order not to do something for the Lord and the reason is it is embarrassing to me.  The more things that I do in service to the Lord the more confident I become in serving Him in different ways, mainly in speaking in front of people.
My Steps of Faith for Today:  I want to trust the Lord to give me wisdom and patience in order to do a good job on my work on our bathroom.  I do not want to get into a hurry just to get it done, but have the desire to take my time and do a good job.
Memory verses for the week:  2Cor. 12:9-10
9. And He said to me, “My faith is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.”  Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
10. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; so that when I am weak, then I am strong.