3/4/2008 7:04 PM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Solitude and humble service
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Exodus 2:15-25
Message of the verses: “15 When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian
16 ¶ Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 Then the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock. 18 When they came to Reuel their father, he said, "Why have you come back so soon today?" 19 So they said, "An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and what is more, he even drew the water for us and watered the flock." 20 He said to his daughters, "Where is he then? Why is it that you have left the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat." 21 Moses was willing to dwell with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses. 22 Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land."
23 ¶ Now it came about in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt Israel Israel
As stated in yesterday’s SD, Moses became an enemy of Pharaoh and had to leave town in a hurry. He goes to the land of the Midianites who are related to the Israelites, for they came from Abraham through a wife after Sarah had died. (Genesis 25:2)
These first eighty years of Moses’ life fly by pretty fast as recorded in the Scriptures, however this second forty years were preparation for the last forty years of his life, for there was little difference in taking care of stubborn sheep and stubborn people as Moses would find out soon enough.
Moses lives in Midian for forty years, maries and has children while he live there with his wife and in-laws. Moses’ son Gershom means foreigner.
There are some similarities between Joseph, Moses, and Jesus that are interesting. All three of them left their father’s home. They were all rejected by their brethren while in exile. They all took a bride while in their exile. Joseph and Moses would take care of their brethren, Joseph when his brothers came to him, and Moses when he went back to his brethren. Jesus will return to His brethren and they will accept Him just as Joseph’s brothers and Moses’ brethren did them.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: “God’s delays aren’t evidence of unconcern, for He hears our groans, sees our plight, feels our sorrows, and remembers His covenant. When He has promised, He will perform, for He never breaks His covenant with His people. When the right time comes, God immediately goes to work.” (From Dr. Wiersbe’s book)
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord to prepare me for the work that He has for me to do, and I hope that work will be in Hawaii, if that is God’s will for me.
Memory verses for the week: 2Cor. 12:9-10
9. And he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast in my weakness, so that the power of Christ may dwell on me.
10. Therefore I am well content with weakness, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
Other memory verses: Philippians 1:9-11
9. And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment,
10. so that you may approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless until the day of Christ;
11. having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
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