Operation Deliverance. When Moses was forty years old it "came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel" (Acts 7:23; NKJV). Problem was, the I AM had not put this on His heart. It was GOD'S will for the Israelites to be freed from Egyptian slavery, but it was not GOD'S time. Moses was dedicated to the will of GOD, but not to the GOD whose will it was. In Exodus 2:12, Moses"looked this way and that way," but Moses failed to look up! Operation Deliverance was energized by the flesh and therefore it failed.
I try, I fail. For forty years Moses reflected on his thinking that led to his action. The Spirit tells us that Moses "supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand" (Acts 7:25; NKJV). Moses learned a valuable lesson about doing GOD'S will without GOD'S help - I try, I fail.
I trust, He succeeds. Forty years later it is GOD'S time. He calls Moses "to be a ruler and a deliverer" (Acts 7:35; NKJV). Moses is broken from the Operation Deliverance experience, but it is GOD'S time and it is GOD who gives Moses the strength to do His will. At the burning bush, in Egypt, at the Red Sea, and at Mount Sinai Moses learns a second valuable lesson - I trust, He succeeds!
"...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure." (Philippians 2:12-13; NKJV)
Jason Cicero
