Notice carefully how the process took place through those years of desert learning, because it is the same with you and me. God must break through several hard, exterior barriers in our lives before He can renovate our souls.
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A Major in Obscurity
The desert is a place of obscurity. Moses had to cope with being a nobody. All his adolescent and adult life, he had been a big-time somebody. The spotlight followed his every move.
Read MoreThrough It All
You’d better believe that Moses, though tucked away in a corner of that wasteland, heard the latest news from the travelers in caravans making their way up from Egypt through the Midian desert.
Read MoreLiving in Obscurity
Pay close attention to that last sentence. “Moses was willing to dwell with the man.” How good that is. Here is a man he had never met; an obscure desert priest and shepherd, who had spent a lifetime raising sheep.
Read MoreSelfless Dedication
Moses, the Prince of Egypt, alias Prince Charming, watering animals? Why? Because Moses had just choked down the biggest wedge of humble pie you can imagine. By now, the man was ready to do anything.
Read MoreSpiritual Ends
Spiritual ends are never achieved by carnal means. Back in Egypt, as you may recall, Moses had “looked this way and that,” then murdered an Egyptian and buried him with sand.
Read MoreShrink-Wrapped Salvation
Moses took a forty-story fall. As we pick up the biblical account, he’s a heavy-hearted, bruised-and-battered soul who has come to a sudden stop at the bottom.
Read MoreBumps in the Road
First surprise. Next confusion, followed by fear, like icy fingers around the heart. When Moses’ well-kept secret hit the prime-time networks, he got the shakes.
Read MoreHeat but No Light
Moses believed he was to be the deliverer, many years before he received his recommission at the burning bush. He assumed everyone else would realize it too.
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