Even When

Melissa Logsdon – March 18, 2024 1 Comment

Usually when I read through Exodus, I’m whisked off into the drama playing out on the stage between Moses and Pharaoh, and all the Plagues, and all the drama of the Exodus story. 

For the first time, on my recent reading of Exodus, I noticed the backstage pass we get to the very personal and real relationship Moses shares with God, as recorded in their conversations. What stood out to me was even when Moses is so honest with his struggles of faith, personal insecurities, and just general hesitation to go with God’s plan; EVEN WHEN God gets angry at Moses, their relationship doesn’t miss a beat…they keep in conversation. AND God doesn’t throw up his hands in that moment of anger at Moses. Instead he PROVIDES for Moses. 

So EVEN WHEN God gets angry at Moses God provides for Moses to help meet him where he’s at. To provide a partner to help him where he feels insecure. To tangibly show Moses that God is with him and will provide for him to follow this plan. 

“But Moses said, ‘Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.’

“Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses 

“and [God] said, ‘What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do.’” ‭-Exodus 4:13-16

We may think, “Well, Moses is special”, but when reading Romans 8 we find the same kind of love and provision for us. God helps us in our struggles in life and with prayer:

“Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. God’s Spirit does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans.  God knows us far better than we know ourselves…and keeps us present before God. That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.” -Romans 8:26-28

Paul goes on to remind us of how God came to save us and therefore nothing can separate us from God’s love for us. 

“So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and … sending his own Son, is there anything else God wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us?

“The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Jesus’ love for us? There is no way!

“For nothing in the universe has the power to diminish Jesus’ love toward us. Troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love.” -Romans 8:31-33, 35

So if nothing can diminish God’s love for us, EVEN WHEN we upset God, like Moses, AND God maintains a relationship of provision and love toward us; then with a love like that, we get to say:

“Yet even in the midst of all these things, we triumph over them all, for God has made us to be more than conquerors,  and God’s demonstrated love is our glorious victory over everything! So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that God’s love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken God’s love. There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One!” -Romans 8:37-39

–Melissa Logsdon,  NCF Associate Pastor