Exodus 5-7

But Moses said to the Lord, “Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?” (Exodus 6:35)

The event recorded in the Bible's book of Exodus, chapter 6, is not the first time Moses uses the way he speaks as an excuse. It was one of his objections to answering the call of God in the first place (Exodus 4:10). It makes me wonder if Moses has made a habit of blaming himself when things don't go as expected and chalking it up to his poor performance in speaking. If so, then his habit prevents him from recognizing another view of his missed expectation, namely, that Pharaoh is responsible for temporarily thwarting God's efforts to release the Hebrew people from their servitude.

How often, when things don't seem to go as expected, do we blame ourselves, assuming we said or did something that foiled the expectation? A wider view might ask, "What are the many root causes of this failure of expectation?" and, "How did the expectation originate?" 

It's worth contemplating a wider view...