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by Sandy Shaw
Is this not a strange way to raise up the leader of a nation?
Moses has been rescued, preserved, and given the finest education Egypt offered.
He knew who he was, a Hebrew, one of the chosen people of God.
One day he went out to where his kith and kin were struggling. He saw an Egyptian beat a Hebrew, and seeking revenge he looked to see that no-one was watching and he killed the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
Next day he saw two Hebrews fighting, and he intervened, only to be met with, “Who do you think you are?”
He had been seen. We never know who sees us.
It had been the wrong time to help the Hebrews, and certainly the wrong manner and method.
What a warning regarding being rash and impetuous. We must resist trying to take things into our own hands.
Timing is vital in any work of God.
Now Pharaoh was after him, and Moses fled.
Moses was zealous, but had to learn patience and meekness.
These fiery elements in his character, which could have influenced him negatively for the remainder of his life, had to be burned out, and where better than the desert.
Moses married outwith the people of God and that caused him trouble in later years.
He became a shepherd, working away on his own in the wilderness, for some 40 years.
Moses was 40 years in Egypt where he was somebody, living in luxury. He then spent 40 years in the wilderness where he was nobody, and then 40 years experiencing what God can do with a nobody. See the Hand of God in all of this.
God can order a man’s life long before He eventually calls him.
Sandy Shaw
Nairn Christian Fellowship
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Sandy has a weekly radio talk which can be heard via the Internet on Saturday at 11:40am, New Orleans time, at wsho.com.
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