Scripture:

“The priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, filling the troughs and watering their father’s sheep. When some shepherds came and chased the girls off, Moses came to their rescue and helped them water their sheep. When they got home to their father, Reuel, he said, ‘That didn’t take long. Why are you back so soon?’

‘An Egyptian,’ they said, ‘rescued us from a bunch of shepherds. Why, he even drew water for us and watered the sheep.’

He said, ‘So where is he? Why did you leave him behind? Invite him so he can have something to eat with us.’

Moses agreed to settle down there with the man, who then gave his daughter Zipporah (Bird) to him for his wife. She had a son, and Moses named him Gershom (Sojourner), saying, ‘I’m a sojourner in a foreign country’.” Exodus 2:16-22 (MSG)

 

Perspective:

Moses had been raised as a prince in Egypt with all the luxuries that had accompanied that title. Yet, his one decision to defend his fellow Israelites when the Egyptians were treating them with cruelty resulted in Moses fleeing the country. When Moses arrived in Midian, he was on the run. He found a well, which would have given him water. While he was sitting there, seven women came to water sheep. Women would not have had priority in this situation when men came to water their sheep. Yet, Moses responded the same way as he did in Egypt. He defended those who could not defend themselves. While Moses started his new life in Midian, he still wasn’t at home. Moses must have felt displaced even when he had a family. God would eventually use this unsettled feeling that Moses experienced to bring him back to the land he left.

 

God has a unique way of directing our path and sometimes we enter seasons of life where we feel unsettled. Even if everything in our physical home, job, and family is in order, we can sense that we have not found our rhythm. It can feel like we are walking into the desert without knowing the way out. As in Moses’ life, God used the long way around to help him fulfill his purpose of delivering the Israelites from Egypt. It included Midian where he would learn how to shepherd, which would prepare him to shepherd thousands of Israelites when they left Egypt. The fulfillment was coming. The unsettled feeling wasn’t in vain. Your current reality is not in vain either. God can use seasons of transition to direct our path, increase our preparation, and align events without us even being aware. So mark the Midian places in your life because you will one day see how it has prepared you.

Scripture taken from THE MESSAGE. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002.  Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. 

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