God,s counsel stands - Moses

I declare from the beginning things to follow, and from ancient times things that have not yet been done; saying, 'My purpose will stand, and he will accomplish everything that I please.' Is 46:10(ISV) 

Beginning from vs. 8 down to vs. 11 of chapter 46 of the book of Isaiah, you will notice reoccurring statements such as “remember” “I am the Lord.” Whenever God is about to do something unusual, He normally begins by reintroducing Himself because man easily forgets the past

-         remember, I am the same Lord who destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah

-         remember Egypt, king pharaoh and all the armies of Egypt,

-         remember the kings of the Jebusites, Ammonites etc

-         remember Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, and Haman.

Our focus is the statement in verse 10 “My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure”. It’s unfortunate that naturally, man can easily forget the move or work of God. Now there arose a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph and he said to his people, “behold, the people of the children of Israel are mightier than we. Come on, let’s deal wisely with them” Ex 1:8-10(KJV). That was the counsel of pharaoh king of Egypt against the people of God but that was contrary to God’s counsel over his people. His counsel is “touch not my prophet and do my servant no harm”(KJV), “Do not touch these people I have chosen and do not hurt my prophets” (NLT). Pharaoh King of Egypt being ignorant of this divine warning paid dearly for it, including the loss of his soldiers. 

I’ve come to realize that those who fell short of this divine warning, never found it funny in their lifetime. Most of them paid with their lives. Let me solemnly state here that every believer ought to know this divine grace! No counsel over a child of God, who is purchased by the precious blood of Jesus, redeemed of God, can stand. Whether in the secret or in the open, whatever God said concerning any of his children must surely come into fulfillment.  

When King Pharaoh was taking this counsel, I could see God laughing at him from His throne in heaven “why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? the kings of the earth set themselves against the lord and the rulers  take counsel together against the lord and against his anointed saying, let us break their bonds asunder and cast away their lords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. The lord shall have them in derision” Ps 2:1-4 (KJV).  So God after laughing at him decided that the very man he will use to destroy Pharaoh’s kingdom and the entire land of Egypt will be raised in the king’s palace and he will provide all education and training for the boy’s upbringing. In fact, he will also undertake his school runs. And Moses was learned in all wisdom of Egyptians and was mighty in words and deeds. Acts 2:22 (KJV).                                                                                                                                                        Odinaka Otuche