Reading Exodus 5 where Moses by the command of God goes to declare His word to Pharaoh, I wondered. God promised to bring them out of Egypt but after the conversation with Pharaoh, the children were plunged into deeper bondage with an added weight of affliction. I wondered why it was right after they received the promise of their deliverance that their burdens were multiplied. Why? God had said He will deliver them from the Egyptians burdens. What happened next wasn’t anything next to deliverance.
It happens that at the time we receive God’s promises, the next reality we see appears to be contrary to what was promised us. I have experienced this. I’m not writing this to share my experience though, but I could in some way feel how they felt.
Moses goes back to God and says “since I spoke your word all that has happened is greater evil. God, it looks like you scammed me. I didn’t want to do this before.”
Apparently, what could have been going on in the minds of the Israelites would be “God, in our distress and affliction we cried to you. You gave us your word that you would deliver us. We were joyful but now this is not deliverance. You have brought us into trouble with Pharaoh and our condition is now worse than it was before your word came.”
Many Christians come to this point in their lives. They begin questioning God’s faithfulness.
God cannot lie. His word will surely come to pass. I mentioned in the last article in this series that God’s promises will most times (if not all times) not be fulfilled the way we thought it. (If you haven’t read it, you can do so here). The only time the promises of God will be fulfilled the way we thought is if our thoughts are by reason of God’s revelation of how He will do it.
God is not and cannot be a scammer first because He is not human. Men of integrity are men who known to be true to their words. God in scripture has revealed His reverence for His word over His name (Psalm 138:2). God will not say what He will not do. “God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” (Numbers 23:19)
I queried, wanting to know why God allowed Pharaoh to increase the burdens of the Israelites rather than let them go. An answer is found in the first verse of the next chapter, chapter 7. “Now shall thou see what I will do to Pharaoh.” God intended to show Himself.
God works things in ways that make it evident that I AM is at work. God desires to make Himself known not just to you but through that situation He makes you go through to the world.
God told Moses that He would bring the Children of Israel out of Egypt but never disclosed how. It is God’s nature to reserve to Himself the way He wishes to accomplish His purposes. The sole reason is that our minds cannot comprehend God’s ways. He requires a following which leads us to the knowing of what He is doing.
Certainly, if God reveals it, our minds cannot process it. Mary asked the angel the way she would be able to conceive. The reply was, the Holy Ghost shall come upon you and the power of the Most High shall overshadow you. Reading that scripture, it was clear to me that she really didn’t comprehend it but yielded to it because she was certain that God was in charge of it.
Yahweh’s ways are glorious. It is not for you to know how God will do what He will do. It is for you to follow Him and watch Him do what He will do for we only know if we follow on to know (Hosea 6:3).
“Thou shalt see what I shall do.” God will tell you what you should and what He will do, but He reserves to Himself how He will do what He will do. God wants to do something you’ve not seen and wants you to see what He wants to do. Only by the eyes of faith can will you see what He does.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8 & 9).
Yahweh’s ways are that He does things way beyond our thinking because He is Yahweh.
In all of God’s doings and workings, He has one thing in mind, His word. He will not do anything contrary to what He has said.
Relax and behold what the LORD does.
YAHWEH'S MOUTHPIECE 
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