Today's thought

Today’s thought from Exodus 1-7

 

Here we are introduced to the life of Moses and his brother Aaron.  In keeping with the story line, Moses is still in the same family line.  Think about how amazing scripture is for a moment,  we have the internet, computerized birth records, ability to communicate nearly instantly around the world and yet we have trouble going back more than a few hundred years.  Here we are some 4000+ years into the future and we have this genealogy that is going to span millennia, not simply centuries.  This all being done in a pre record keeping era, this is yet another proof of God’s amazing ability to take the insignificant and make it amazingly significant.  This information will span numerous kings, nations rising and falling, from slavery to superpower, to captivity, from meager existence to kingdom, on and on, yet this families line continues to be preserved, coincidence, I don’t think so.   So anyhow, Moses is in the line of Levi who was the third son of Israel (Jacob).  Moses, unlike his Hebrew brothers grew up in a very privileged life, saved from the river by the Daughter of Pharaoh, Moses was afforded every opportunity that could have been given to Hebrew in that time. And was likely alone in that category.  Moses finds himself fleeing from Egypt as a man, fearful that Pharaoh will kill him because while trying to protect one of his Hebrew brothers Moses killed an Egyptian, the one who was beating the man.  So Moses fled to Midian and spent many years there, married had a child, and for all intensive purposes, put his life in Egypt behind him.  It wasn’t till God came to Moses did Moses entertain the thought of returning to Egypt.  God speaks to Moses through a burning bush, demonstrates miracles with Moses’ staff, and even creates leprosy, instantly and then heals it instantly, and Moses still isn’t sure that he can be God’s man.  So much so that he wears God down and God allows Aaron, Moses’ brother to go and be the voice for Moses.   Moses is instructed to have various meetings with Pharaoh, all of which go poorly and heap additional burden on the very people that he is there to lead to liberty.  God continues to convince Moses, that he is the man to carry God’s message and that God has a plan to demonstrate to the Hebrews and to the Egyptians that God is in control and Pharaoh will have to concede to Gods’ commands.  While we are all pretty familiar with this story,  Watch the character development of Moses.  We are going to see him go from privileged youth, to brash young male, to frightened and timid adult to perhaps one of the greatest leaders of all time.