Exiting Egypt Chapter 5 P1

Exiting Egypt

“When Everyone Criticizes You”

By Dennis Lee: Chapter

Exodus 5

As Moses was rejected by Pharaoh and then by his own people, he was learning what it meant to stand alone with God.

Not only did Pharaoh refuse his request, but in essence he essentially called Moses a liar. And then Israelites went around Moses by taking their case directly to Pharaoh. It was one thing to be rejected by Pharaoh, an unbeliever, but it was quite another thing to be rejected by his own people.

Moses experienced a bitter and painful lesson in learning to trust God alone. Every vestige of hope in others was ripped away, and he had no other choice than to stand alone with God.

The entire plan of delivering Israel seemed to have backfired. Once again his own people were bitter toward him and accused him of being directly responsible for their troubles, even though Moses had been willing to give his life for them. So those words spoken by his own people must have cut deeply.

Our hearts should go out to Moses because his troubles are only beginning. He had been prepared for Pharaoh’s rejection, because God had warned him. But no warning had been given concerning the rejection and accusations leveled at him by his own people.

How discouraging it is when we’re criticized by those we are trying to help, which leads us to the following observation, that it is easier to take criticism from unbelievers than it is to get it from believers.

This is exactly what Jesus felt as well, as again we wee a similarity between Jesus and Moses.

He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him (Jn. 1:11 NKJV)