Therefore, there is NOW NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, Romans 8:1
We looked yesterday at the unusual timing of God’s Call on Moses – tending sheep in the desert and God said, ‘So Now, Go!’ I am sending you to Pharaoh to Deliver Israel. Exodus 3:10
Moses was unsure what to do and began to question God, but the account of Moses in Hebrews 11 is totally positive. Hebrews only speaks good of Moses, a hero of the Faith. GOD CONSTANTLY LOOKS FOR THE GOOD IN ALL OF US, we are His Children and His Creation.
There were three different phases in Moses’ life and there may be different phases and varying circumstances in our lives!
Moses, a Hebrew boy, was ‘pulled out or drawn out’ of the water and given to Pharaoh’s daughter.
22 Moses was EDUCATED IN ALL THE WISDOM OF THE EGYPTIANS (Worldly wisdom and learning) and was powerful in speech and action. (Moses had a natural boldness) Acts 7
(Acts 7 was Stephen’s speech to the Sanhedrin, before he was martyred.)
Moses spent the first phase of his life in the palace of Pharaoh, surrounded by all the pomp and power of Egypt.
23 ‘When Moses was FORTY YEARS OLD, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. 24 He saw one of them being ill-treated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defence and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. 25 Moses thought that HIS OWN PEOPLE WOULD REALISE THAT GOD WAS USING HIM TO RESCUE THEM, BUT THEY DID NOT. Acts 7
At a certain stage in his life, at Forty Years, Moses stepped out to rescue his people but it wasn’t God’s Time. We may have things in our hearts that we long to do and they may be right for us, but God has a perfect time for them. We can’t force the issue, we have to wait God’s initiatives.
Moses had to flee Egypt to the desert of Midian and became a shepherd. What a contrast, what an adjustment! Very few people there and a very simple lifestyle – he must have thought he’d really blown his chances.
30 ‘After FORTY YEARS HAD PASSED, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. 31 When he saw this, he was amazed at the sight. Acts 7
Forty more years passed and Moses had a supernatural encounter at the burning bush. Moses was in the ‘backside of the desert’, but God knew where and how to find him. You may feel abandoned today but God knows exactly who and where you are! Don’t give up, if you’re alive in these days God still has a plan for you.
Moses was to spend the last forty years of his life being a father to a whole nation, literally several millions of people. His quiet days of tending sheep were over, this time he was watching over God’s flock – again what a contrast.
17 Moses’ father-in-law replied, ‘What you are doing is not good. 18 You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. 19 Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. Exodus 18
Moses had to adapt again and change his whole life, but now he couldn’t do it all alone. Jethro gave him good advice for handling the next phase.
God bless and keep you in these days of change.