We may know we’re called to somewhere or something, but not grasp the true nature of God’s Call at first. Exodus 2
The account of God’s people Israel continues with the birth of a single boy child, Moses (whom Pharaoh wanted killed). Moses, the baby in the basket ‘drawn out of’ the water by Pharaoh’s daughter; she had pity on the child whom God would use to deliver Israel. Moses was raised and trained in Pharaoh’s own palace as an adopted son.
The next thing we learn of Moses, now a grown man, is that he killed an Egyptian for beating one of his people (there was no doubt who Moses identified with).
11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labour. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Looking this way and that and seeing no one, HE KILLED THE EGYPTIAN and hid him in the sand. Exodus 2
Moses had a Call from God on his life to confront (Seek Justice from) Pharaoh and the power structures of Egypt. He may have felt that at some level when he killed the Egyptian – RIGHT CALL, WRONG OUTWORKING! Those with the Call of God on our lives, need to allow God’s purposes to unfold and not take matters into our own hands.
The killing of the Egyptian became known and Pharaoh, the powerful ruler sought revenge.
15 When Pharaoh heard of this, HE TRIED TO KILL MOSES, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 Some shepherds came along and drove them away, BUT MOSES ‘GOT UP’ and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
My Swedish mentor Kjell Sjoberg, who led Prophetic Prayer Teams all around the world, always asked the Lord how far he could go in confronting the enemy. It would appear Moses went too far.
Like Joseph, God’s earlier Deliverer, Moses left his people and home to go out and live a very different life.
One door closes and another opens. Moses GOT UP, he stirred himself and rescued/brought justice to the shepherdesses. He also watered their flocks, reminiscent of Rebekah (Bride for Isaac), who watered Abraham’s camels. One rescue was wrong and meant Moses had to flee, the closed door. The next rescue opened the door to a new life, with Zipporah his wife and son Gershom (sounds like ‘an alien here’), in the desert of Midian.
Outside of God’s will and acting himself, Moses was in danger, but in God’s will the right door opened and eventually he fulfilled God’s purposes for his own life and for Israel.
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