After four hundred years of suffering from being enslaved by the Eygptians, God heard the prayers of the Israelites and raised up a man named Moses. It did not take four hundred years of praying and begging by the Israelites before God heard them. God heard them immediately when they cried out to him. However, God had His own time in fulfilling His work.
Moses grew up in the palace and was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He had the best training undertake the task God gave him. When he was forty, he happened to find out that he was an Israelite. He saw how his own people were enslaved in Egypt, and wanted to use his position of authority to help them. One day he saw an Egyptian mistreating an Israelite, so he killed the Egyptians. He thought the Israelites should crown him as king after what he did for them. The next day when he saw two Israelites fighting each other, he tried to be the mediator between them. Instead, one of them said to him, "Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?" Although he thought that the Israelites will understand him and appreciate him, they did not.
Since then, Moses fled to the wilderness for forty years. God called him again out of the wilderness to save the Israelites. Moses said to God, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue!" God worked in the life of Moses during the forty years he was in the wilderness. Moses used to think he could do anything, but when he stood before God that day, he acknowledged his limitations. God said to him, "Indeed, you can't, but I can!" In our lives, we often need to be "pruned" by God. Serving God by our flesh is never effective. We need to learn to let God "prune" us, to rely on God, and to serve Him with His power!
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