Exodus 2:11-25

Moses, the adopted son of the pharaoh's daughter, grows up. And he goes through quite a bit of growing pains in this part of his story.

He peeps on an Egyptian beating on a fellow Hebrew, and he kills the offender when it seems as though no one sees. But someone did. The very next day, he sees a pair of Hebrews fighting. He tries to intervene, but the offending one turns on Moses and accuses, "Are you gonna kill me like you killed the Egyptian?"

That statement shakes Moses to the core, but not as much as what happens next.

The pharaoh finds out and wants to kill Moses, but Moses runs into the desert because he is no fool.

But he doesn't stop with the intervening. Luckily this time is a charm. When he helps the women water their flock, they bring him to their father's home for some hospitality and a wife (and a little while later, a son too)!

Cut back to Egypt: the Israelites are miserable under the yoke of slavery imposed by the Egyptians, and they cry out to God.

God hears, He sees and He remembers His covenant to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He's about to make moves in Exodus 3.

God is literally the God of promises, and He's a keeper of promises. He's the God of fulfilled promises. But in this chapter, when I read "His covenant to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," I see that He's willing to go the distance with His promises. In Genesis 15, He told Abraham, "I'll make you the father of nations," which in and of itself is a huge promise. So huge that He said it again to Isaac, then again to Jacob.

(What mantle does He want to fulfill in you? In your family? In your generation?)

He doesn't mind reminding us of what He wants to do in us and through us. He doesn't want us to forget that what He has planned for us is so much bigger than us, and it doesn't start or end with us. It begins with Him. It also ends with Him.

We just get to be a part of the story.