Comeback: Murderer to Deliverer (Moses)

Are you a planner?  Not everybody is!  Some people feel lost if they don't begin each day with a plan.  Others like to go with the flow and take the day as it comes!

Those of us who are planners don't like to have our plans interrupted. It confuses and frustrates us.  

Moses had a plan.  Or at least seems to have!  Exodus 2:11ff says that one day he went out to see the oppression of his people.  He had been raised as the son of Pharaoh's daughter, but at some point became aware of his Hebrew heritage. 

While he was out, he saw an Egyptian taskmaster beating one of his people.  Maybe he had observed many incidents like this.  Moved by what he saw, he glanced around, and saved his fellow Hebrew by killing the Egyptian.  He hid his body in the sand.

Maybe his plan was to become something like a Hebrew Avenger, leading his people out of slavery.  Maybe he even thought God would approve!

But God blew up Moses' plan. The next day, he tried to break up a fight between two Hebrews.  The one who started it said, "Who appointed you ruler and judge over us?  Are you going to kill me like you did the Egyptian?"  

Moses was sick!  Not only was word out about the murder, but also at least some of his people rejected his role.

Moses fled to Midian, and found refuge with a priest named Reuel.  Eventually, he married one of his daughters.

His plan at that point seems to have been to live out his life as a shepherd and forget all about Egypt.  But God blew up his plan again!  Exodus 3:1ff says one day he was out tending the sheep near Mt. Sinai.  There, he saw a bush that burned but wasn't consumed.  

The rest is history!

Moses' experience tells us that many times when our plans blow up, it's God doing it!  And his plan for us is greater than any we can imagine!

So go ahead and plan.  You need to. But remember God may have something else in mind!


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