Prepare: Lord, teach me how I should meet daily-life situations.
Read: Exodus 2:11-25
We are blessed with a variety of emotional expressions. But for these expressions, we may not know the motives behind people's actions and reactions. In today's passage, we see how people act with different emotional expressions.
Rash action out of explosive anger: Moses, later on to be known for his meekness, now acts rashly out of anger. He wrongly assumed that the Hebrews would rally around hum if he killed the Egyptian. Only time would show that his anger and physical strength could not help the Hebrews and that only God's intervention would bring redemption to the Hebrews.
Bold action out of compassionate consideration: Moses with a sense of justice and compassion goes out to help the daughters of the Midianites priest, Reuel (also known as Jethro). This one act paved the wayfor Moses to get favour in an alien land and dwell there for forty long years.
Courteous action out of fore-sight: Ruel invites Moses, an alien, to live with him and provides him means to enjoy a normal married life. Moses learns to appreciate his father-in-laws wisdom. This helps Moses to receive more wise advice from him later on(18:13-27).
In this passage we also see God fulfilling His purposes (23-25) being faithful to the covenant He made with the forefathers of the Hebrews. God is faithful to His word, and is always dependable. He heard the cry of the Hebrews and was concerned about them. The stage is set for God to act on their behalf.
Respond: Lord God, help me to be a person who can be trusted at all times.
Read: Exodus 2:11-25
We are blessed with a variety of emotional expressions. But for these expressions, we may not know the motives behind people's actions and reactions. In today's passage, we see how people act with different emotional expressions.
Rash action out of explosive anger: Moses, later on to be known for his meekness, now acts rashly out of anger. He wrongly assumed that the Hebrews would rally around hum if he killed the Egyptian. Only time would show that his anger and physical strength could not help the Hebrews and that only God's intervention would bring redemption to the Hebrews.
Bold action out of compassionate consideration: Moses with a sense of justice and compassion goes out to help the daughters of the Midianites priest, Reuel (also known as Jethro). This one act paved the wayfor Moses to get favour in an alien land and dwell there for forty long years.
Courteous action out of fore-sight: Ruel invites Moses, an alien, to live with him and provides him means to enjoy a normal married life. Moses learns to appreciate his father-in-laws wisdom. This helps Moses to receive more wise advice from him later on(18:13-27).
In this passage we also see God fulfilling His purposes (23-25) being faithful to the covenant He made with the forefathers of the Hebrews. God is faithful to His word, and is always dependable. He heard the cry of the Hebrews and was concerned about them. The stage is set for God to act on their behalf.
Respond: Lord God, help me to be a person who can be trusted at all times.
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