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If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Friday, November 1, 2019
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Moses Flees to Midian Bible Verse :Exodus 2:11-22 "One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?” He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.” When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock. When they came home to their father Reuel [Jethro], he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?” They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.” Moses, Jethro and Zipporah Early glazed terracotta depicting Moses, Jethro and Zipporah. He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.” And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah. She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.” " Message:
Unlike most of the great heroes of the Bible, Moses' early life is rather unremarkable. There is the way in which he escaped death as a baby, but we are not told that this is any sort of supernatural mark, and although the circumstances were interesting, many Hebrew babies must have lived through the purge; for we see many Hebrew men of Moses' generation.
He does have strength, both strength of character and physical strength; he kills an Egyptian, the fighting Hebrew clearly anticipates that Moses might be able to kill him, and he drives away a band of shepherds from the well. But this is presented to us as a human strength. The Hebrew fighter pointedly notes that Moses is nobody special. No angel or voice has announced him; he does not have special obligations, rights, or prophesies.
He is nothing more, at this point, than an escaped slave with Egyptian blood on his hands. The verses today might be the beginning of an adventure novel. He does take advantage of an opportunity, to get in good with a very minor shepherd, but it is his salvation, for surely he would have died eventually in the wilderness by himself.
Nobody is sure where "Midian" was, but we see the tribe of Midianites several times. Midianite traders sold Joseph into slavery in Egypt. (Genesis 37:36) The tribe was apparently descended from Abraham by his wife Keturah. (Genesis 25:1-2) Most likely, Moses had fled to the northwest corner of the Arabian peninsula, which is both a logical place for the Midianites to call home and the fastest route away from Egyptian influence.
Moses has a son, again a rather normal occurrence with no great religious significance. He calls him Gershom, which sounds like Hebrew for "sojourner". But the naming does give us the haunting phrase, "stranger in a strange land", used by Robert Heinlein as the title of a famous science fiction novel.
Meditation : Prayer : God of mercy, swift to help: as my lips pour forth your praise, fill my heart with the peace you give to those who wait for your salvation in Jesus Christ our Lord...........Amen |
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