Let God Handle It

"Moses said, 'We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for we must hold a feast to the Lord.' Then he said to them, 'Thus may the Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Take heed, for evil is in your mind. Not so! Go now, the men among you, and serve the Lord, for that is what you desire.' So they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence." -Exodus 10.9-11

Pharaoh just said the men could go. The men that he had piled work on so that they wouldn't have time to listen to Moses, he is now permitting to leave. A leader who hadn't learned to trust fully in God would probably have jumped at the opportunity. The men can head out of Egypt, and then meet up with a neighboring king who wouldn't mind expanding his territory. They join forces and return to Egypt in battle formation, take out Pharaoh, and free their families.

Sounds like a decent plan, men doing what they were made to do, fight and protect their families. But his isn't the way God has said He will deliver His people. He isn't going to have them do a thing, because if He did then their praise would be for themselves. They would say, "We rescued ourselves from Egypt with our own strength and courage. We defeated Pharaoh and won our freedom." That isn't the way God has in mind, and thankfully, Moses is a leader who trusts fully in God.

Men, what is your course of action? Do you trust God to handle it, or do you seek an ideal opportunity and then take matters into your own hands? Let's face it, we like, no, we love control. We love to take matters into our own hands, and we hate when we don't have control over a situation. We hate when we can't figure something out or do anything to determine the outcome. But there is so much with life that we can't control. And as Men of God there is so much we are called to give up control of, or at least our attempt of control.

Had Moses taken matters into his own hands, thought, "Maybe this is what God had in mind all along" a lot of Israelites would have been killed. But because he listened, and more importantly trusted God to handle it, he leaves Pharaoh's presence and ushers in the next plague.

What does taking matters into our own hands end up costing us? Is it worth it? Let us learn to trust. Let's let God handle it.

"Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."

To God alone be the Glory!

Strength and Honor