I’ve wondered what might have happened should Moses have decided not to flee to the land of Midian.

 

Exposure has a way of causing a sudden panic at times. It will make you run.

 

As God allowed a “finding out” of his sin against an Egyptian, guilt, and shame ushered him into a wilderness season.

 

40 years he would spend there.

 

It’s a rough go trying to reconcile people and preach a word to be suddenly found out as a hypocrite and murderer.

 

Listen, this ought to hit home for each one of us. This, too, can taint our own ability to reach people with the truth.

 

What we do far outweighs, very often, what we say.

 

We should be thankful for a merciful God.

 

We have a way of hiding from our sin, don’t we? Avoiding the necessary conversations. Refusing to fall on our swords. Thus, we find ourselves in an extended place with God whereby he goes after a needed character growth.

 

Would you find this the case for yourself today?

 

A place of halting silence whereby you’re circling a mountain longer than expected?

 

I tenderly ask if there might be a hidden murder committed by your own hand to another? Murder comes in many forms.

 

Has God had to stop the pretend preaching so you might come away for a character lesson?

 

Let us be willing to fall on the sword of His Spirit and make necessary and honest evaluations, reconciliations, and confessions one to another that we might be healed.

 

Praise God that He still used Moses for mighty exploits…after a bit of wilderness training.

 

In order to become a deliverer, he had to first be delivered so that when his moment of leadership came into full bloom he would lead with integrity and the very nature of God.

 

Acts 7:17-35