God sees, He knows...

Exodus 2:14-15

“Moses was afraid…Moses fled to Midian…Moses sat down by a well.”

Raised in Pharoah’s home and trained for Royal duties, there was no question Moses was destined for Egyptian greatness.

Yet, he finds himself chased out of town in Midian: deflated, defeated, discouraged.

Back leaned against a well, rear-end on the dirt, head dangling low.

It is no Biblical secret that God’s Graduate School for Greatness includes obscurity, mundaneness, gut-wrenching pain, forgottenness, unplanned detours, and loads of “How did I get here?” “What do I do now?” and “God, do you even care?”

Moses, instead of wallowing, made some good moves. He looked up, looked around, saw a need, acted to meet the need, served, protected, and cared for seven daughters of Reuel, the Priest of Midian.

Upon return, the daughters told their father of the faithfulness of a man at the well

Being a smart, desirous, future Father-in-law, Reuel asked, “Why did you leave him there?”

Then the story reads:

“Go get him, bring him here, feed him bread.”

“Moses was content to dwell with the man and his family”

“Reuel gave Moses his daughter ZIpporah as a wife.”

“She gave birth to a son.”

God knew right where Moses was geographically, emotionally, and spiritually.

God had Moses exactly where He wanted him.

Moses chose to act in faithfulness, to love and serve, regardless of his degree of understanding

God blessed Moses with bread, a father (in-law), a family, a wife, a son, a purpose, reasons, etc.

God did “exceedingly, abundantly, more than Moses could have ever asked or even imagined.”

Grindforth!..in faith

A book I am digging, Unreasonable Hospitality, by Will Guidara