I can’t take it anymore!!!

Then Moses said to the LORD, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”
And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” EXODUS 33:13-14

REFLECTION:

Let’s revisit what happened in this chapter. God had mightily liberated his people from the slavery and wickedness through His faithful servant, Moses. And despite of the vile complaints and moanings throughout their exile in the wilderness, God graciously fed with “Manna” until they reached the border of the promised land, Canaan. (Exodus 16:35). Just about God had inscripted the tablet of testimony with His finger in Mount Sinai.When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him! (Exodus 32:1). That kindling impatience has fuelled into aggression and indignation that compelled even Aaron into rebellion and eventually into a blatant and upfront idolatry as they shamelessly erected monumented their grievous sin in the form of the golden calf. God’s divine wrath would have eradicated them even Moses stepped as the mediator and negotiator in behalf of these  undeserved rebellious people. And there in that very moment, life has been granted despite as God showed His mercy by reassuring His people to be with them. The pandemic impact of the impatience has mirrored ourselves to these people and what an audacity to prostrate our fickle-mindedness to the One who made Heaven  and Earth, and formed us even before the time begun.

PRAYER:

All-merciful God! Mine eye seeketh Thee, my soul panteth after Thee, to lay before Thee its heavy woe; the lamentations of my lips ascend to Thy throne. Troubles and sorrows have befallen me and my heart is full of bitter grief. ABBA, Father, Creator of heaven and earth, You breath into our nostrils out from the dust and grant us eternal life through Thy only Begotten Son, Lord Jesus Christ sinless blood that flowed from that cross that grant us salvation, empty our wicked heart form the lies and lust of this fallen world and self-centredness. And rely on Thy Omnipotence and Omniscence through Thy overflowing mercy and grace.

Oh Lord, help me I pray, to learn the lesson of patience and of love and of all the beautiful attributes that only come through a close and meaningful walk with the Lord Jesus. Help me to submit the difficulties and problems in my life onto You, instead of trying to put on a pretence of being ‘patient’, when what I need is Your love and Your peace and Your joy and Your patience, which I realise only comes by grace, through trusting You. Thank You for Your loving patience with me in teaching me how to live as You would have.