With a Subtitle: This passage shows how God used Moses despite worldly training and a delayed calling
A brief Excerpt: Acts 7:22 reminds us that God is not limited by a difficult beginning, worldly influence, or wasted years. He can shape a life over time, redeem the past, and bring glory to His name through patient purpose.
Scripture
Our verse for today comes from Acts 7:22, “And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and deeds.”
Background
It’s fascinating to consider how much a 10-year-old has changed over the past five years of his life, especially in comparison to how little you and I have probably not changed over the same period of time. As the child doubled in age, he went through arguably the most formative years of his life. So much about what they will do, want to do, and be able to do will be determined over the same amount of time when too many of us merely had a few more hairs turn gray and fought to limit the number of extra pounds we carry around. So many success stories harken back to the passion that grew or exposure that occurred or ability that was nurtured in those pre-teen years that blossomed into the radiant adult of today. And the power of those early years is why parents fret so much over the influences of their children. And if that’s so, then few could have fretted more than the parents of Moses. After he was rescued from almost certain death as a three-month-old, his mom was able to nurse him. But when he was weaned, he went to live as the son of Pharaoh in the palace, the same Pharaoh who had decreed that Moses’ parents kill him after he was born. It was under this philosophy and instruction that their beloved Moses would be raised, taught to lord over his own people and managed by them as slaves. Such was the wisdom that Moses learned, and in it he became mighty in speech and action. For forty years he supported and promoted the ways of the oppressor, while his parents, no doubt, mourned their son who knew nothing of the God who made him.
Application
But then Moses reached out to his kinsmen, after decades of disregard, and things did not go well. So off he ran to spend another forty years in a different sort of desert. But then it happened. Despite the ungodly education, despite the indifference to his people’s suffering, despite the murder, and despite the resistance to God’s calling, Moses became the Moses that all of history reveres. So it is possible for a rough start and the ways of the world to be part of God’s design to bless his child and ultimately bring glory to His name. So if you’re waiting, keep trusting in the One who named the stars to carry out His full plan.
Charge
As we seek Him today, remember that time and opportunity and availability are not a problem for God. And pray like you believe that.
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