Moses: “Why Did You Send Me?”

Posted by Lorren on January 26, 2009

I was reading about Moses this evening, in the beginning of Exodus.  God had sent him into Egypt to tell Pharoah to let his people go, and things go from bad to worse.  Pharoah says that the Israelites have been idle and makes their work even more difficult.

This passage was pretty interesting to me because I can relate to it. Does it ever feel like you’ve been trying to serve God and things just get worse in your life? I remember a time when we were making roughly the equivalent of $80k a year, when I was working. We realized that God would rather have me staying at home with the kids, and have my husband working. Our income saw an immediate drop to around $20k. His income went up for a while, but it went down again, and now we’re making around $13k. Although I suppose with my writing work we’re making $14k or so.

So sometimes I wonder why things are so rough for us when we’re doing what we’re supposed to be doing. Although we’ve never been without food or a place to sleep, even after our house caught on fire. It isn’t so bad now (because everybody’s struggling), but a couple of years ago, I would look at everyone around us, who was much more successful than us, and wondered where we were going wrong.

God had a plan for Moses though. Although Moses never went to live in the Egyptian palace again, he did do some amazing things. Even though he went through a time of difficulty. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I am able to homeschool my daughter. My husband’s business is likely to start paying at some point. I guess we can only wait to see. Just like Moses had to when he was wondering why it seemed God was making things worse when he was doing God’s will.