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'...