Not the way I remembered it

Have you ever revisited your school, or your old house, or some place that had a lot of meaning to you and it didn't seem the same. Not that it was bad, it just seemed smaller than the way you remembered? Or perhaps it wasn't as glamorous as you had thought it was. The same could be said about stories you hear, or events you were part of when you were younger. In yesterday's reading, I came across something that I hadn't seen before, or at least I didn't remember it this way. In Exodus 7-11 is the account of God delivering the Israelites from the hand of Egyptian slavery. However, I never realized how much Aaron was used in this process. Moses had complained to God in Exodus 3 about being unable to speak, unconfident in his own ability, and eventually God told him to bring his brother Aaron as the spokesman. So you may be wondering why this seemed like such a revealtion; but the truth is that Aaron basically shared the staff with Moses to bring out God's judgments upon Pharaoh. God told Moses to have Aaron bring the first three plagues: water to blood, frogs, and gnats. Ironically, Pharaoh's magicians could duplicate the plague, but they couldn't remove it. It was at the plague of gnats that the magicians couldn't do their tricks anymore. But it was also God that brought some plagues, well, I guess you could say that God brought all of them, but there's no mention of Aaron or Moses bringing the: flies, the disease on the cattle, or the death of the first born. Moses was told to bring the: boils, the hail, the locusts, and the darkness. Although that may not seem very deep at all, but as I started out, this was something I had always remembered Moses as being the catalyst for the plagues and Aaron did all the talking but as I read through this again, I realized that wasn't the case. Perhaps this shows us that God works in concert with us, but we have to do some work ourselves. Many may feel that sounds too much like "working your way to heaven", however, God wants us to be alive in our faith, which means we "don't just hear the message from God, do what he says" (James 1:22).