Tuesdays, 14th October,2025
Alex Buabeng-Korsah
TOPIC: THE GOD WHO ALWAYS WINS
THEME SCRIPTURE: “Do not supply the people with any more straw for making bricks. Let them get it themselves! But don’t reduce their production quota by a single brick.” – Exodus 5:7-8 (NLT)
PREPARATORY QUESTION
1. Why do things get so tough when we are so close to a breakthrough?
Oppression often intensifies just before liberation. Before Israel’s exodus from Egypt, their suffering escalated. Pharaoh imposed an impossible demand—bricks without straw— punishing obedience to God with deeper injustice. In South Africa, centuries later, Nelson Mandela and his fellow prisoners faced a similarly brutal system. What connects them? Both were crushed, but not broken.
In Exodus 5, Moses obeys God's command to confront Pharaoh. The result is devastating: the people suffer more, and Moses is blamed (Exo 5:21). But this isn’t divine neglect— it’s divine strategy.
Beloved, before deliverance, God allows pressure to expose the true nature of tyranny and prepare His people for freedom.
This is why Apostle Peter, by the Spirit admonished: “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness…” (2 Peter 3:9). In his book, Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela wrote of being worked to the brink on Robben Island, yet he and others resisted— not with violence, but with unyielding endurance.
Israel didn’t strike; they endured. God was not absent. He was preparing a platform to reveal His power.
As Tertullian wrote, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” Endurance in suffering is not passivity—it’s trust that God is shaping history, even in silence.
Precious one, in times of depth suffering and yet God has spoken, what are we to do?
1. Reframe hardship. See trials not as signs of God’s absence, but as the tension before breakthrough (James 1:2–4).
2. Maintain spiritual disciplines. Like Mandela’s quiet resolve, hold fast in prayer, worship, and Scripture. These are tools of inner resistance.
3. Refuse to internalize the lies of Pharaoh. Oppression says, “God has abandoned you”. The Gospel says, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5).
4. Speak truth in faith. Remind yourself and others that God does hear, even when deliverance delays.
Beloved, the Pharaoh who refused to give straw eventually became a man of straw. In every age, the "Pharaohs" who demand more than we can give are exposed not by retaliation, but by the endurance of the faithful. Hold fast. God always wins.
God bless you more.
FURTHER READING: Exodus 5
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QUESTIONS TO HELP YOU MEDITATE ON THE WORD
- What “bricks without straw” pressures are you facing right now?
- How might God be using this season to reshape your understanding of His sovereignty?
- What does faithfulness look like in the middle of unfair circumstances?
PRAYER
Lord, in the crushing weight of unjust demands, teach me to trust Your timing. When obedience leads to hardship, remind me that You are not absent—you are preparing deliverance. Give me the courage of Moses, the endurance of Israel, and the quiet strength of Mandela. Shape me into someone who endures with hope, not despair. Help me remember: even when evil seems to rise, You are still on the throne. In Jesus' precious name. Amen
One-Year Bible Reading Plan.
Psalm 122; Revelation 10; Esther 1
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