Good
Morning Friends,
God
satisfied all of Moses’ objections and doubts and provided Moses with all that
he needed to accomplish the task he had been assigned. Finally, Moses headed
toward Egypt, intent on doing what the Lord had asked of him.
But
something strange happened along the way – God stopped Moses and was about to
kill him. As a response to God’s threat on Moses’ life, Moses’ wife took her
son and circumcised him. At that, the Lord let Moses alone.
“At
a lodging place on the way, the LORD met [Moses] and was about to kill him. But
Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched [Moses']
feet with it. ‘Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,’ she said. So the
LORD let him alone. (At that time she said ‘bridegroom of blood,’ referring to
circumcision.)” (Exodus 4:25-26)
For
some reason, Moses had not had his sons circumcised when they were born. Moses
knew the command of God about circumcision for Hebrew boys, but he ignored it.
Perhaps he was giving in to the hesitation of his wife who was not a Jew. Perhaps
it was an act of defiance against God because of what already happened to Moses
in Egypt. We don’t know why Moses failed to circumcise his sons – just that he
failed.
The
problem wasn’t about circumcision or any magical powers it had to protect. The
problem was disobedience. Moses was disobedient to God. His disobedience almost
cost him the opportunity to be used in a really significant way to help his
people. His disobedience almost cost him his life.
There
was something wrong in Moses’ life and before he could move forward that problem
had to be dealt with. God wasn’t willing to use a man who was openly disobedient
to Him.
You
see, God does care about obedience. Disobedience gets in the way of God’s ability,
or willingness, to use us. Disobedience creates a problem in our relationship
with God.
Are
there areas of disobedience in your life that are keeping you from being all
that God wants you to be?
His,
by Grace,
Steve
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