Moses

Every once in a while, for a season, it will seem that everything in my universe and its surrounding galaxies revolve around a single topic/subject from the Word.

Several years ago, it was Mark.  Then, Daniel's journey.  Last year and beginning of this one, Luke permeated my consciousness.  Now, it's Moses' turn.

Moses has been dancing around my periphery for some time.  I felt like Moses last year, stuck in the desert, naming children things like "I've become an alien in a foreign land."  40 years in the desert, waiting for life to begin again.  Good grief.

Now, D&T and I decided to study Moses and the exodus.  Because I'm reading Genesis for devotionals and I hate overlaps.  And then...Papacheng preaches on chapter 19.  And then a friend gives a testimony about the intense meeting of souls in chapter 3, the overlap of Moses' calling and her call to full-time ministry.  And yet another person blogs about the journeys of Moses.

Moses, for me, is either the handsome prince of Egypt that gets the people across the Red Sea and has "Happily ever after," or the graying image of Charleton Heston with his stone tablets, or the fading figure on the mountaintop gazing longingly at the Promise he wouldn't get to partake in.  But Moses is never me.  Never the center of my attention.  And he's got it now.

The coolest thing I learned today was that Moses had a second son, noted in chapter 18.  This time, it was not so despairing.  The second son represents the goodness of God.  "My father's God was my helper; he saved me fro the sword of Pharaoh."  An aha! moment.  The...oh, 40 years in the desert is definitely preferable to death , revelation. Reflection of the far far journey Moses had to take from the Nile river, to the Egyptian palace, to the far-off Midian desert, and then a meeting on the mountain and an impossible task, to set a people free and destroy one of the greatest armies of the time.   And now, the odyssey to the Promised Land.   "He saved me...He is my helper."  A promise for the road ahead.

Finally getting to move from chapter 3 to chapter 18 is really really freeing and utterly worth the wait!