God uses stubborn people - Exodus 5-8

Moses and Aaron are sent on a mission to Pharaoh. God is about to use all parties involved to demonstrate His great love for His people, His hatred for idol worship and His power of all things. This is the point of this story and these miracles. Romans 9:14-18 tells us that for this very reason God created Pharaoh. God uses stubborn people and stubborn situations to accomplish His glory. Moses was stubborn; not wanting to even be the messenger of God. The Israelites were stubborn not wanting the hassle to follow God. Pharaoh was stubborn not wanting to believe in God. Yet, through all of this God used them all to glorify Himself and demonstrate His power and wonder. When we are going through a youth time in our lives it is important to know that God is going to used that tough time to accomplish His glorification. Our fears and failures and stubbornness in the midst of those times only magnify what God is going to do. We need to give God the glory and to assure that our cooperation isn't in the form of Pharaoh. God wants us to trust His power and His love in the use of that power. When God performed those early miracles on the land they affected the land of Goshen where the nation of Israel lived. It was only the later miracles that were held separate form Goshen. The Israelites had to endure frogs and water turned to blood as God worked on displaying His power. Just as the world enjoys the common grace God provides on behalf of believers, believers have to endure some acts of punishment God pours out on the sin of unbelief. God is displaying His power and the tough circumstances you and I may be in are for His glory. We may be stubborn, but God will even use that to bring Himself glory.