Through the lens of Man

Exodus 2 records the first time Moses tried to deliver his people. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. After looking around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand (Ex 2:11–12).

He saw an injustice. He acted alone. He used force. He covered it up. The next day, he discovered that two Hebrews already knew what he had done — and the news got back to Pharaoh. Moses fled.

Most men I know have at least one Egyptian-in-the-sand in their past. A moment they tried to be the deliverer their own way — through force, through control, through manipulation, through a manufactured solution they thought no one would find out about. It usually backfires. It usually buries them.

The Father did not call Moses based on his Egyptian-in-the-sand attempt. He called him forty years later, in a place of utter unimpressiveness. The man God uses is the man who has stopped trying to prove he can do it himself.

One small thing today: name an Egyptian-in-the-sand in your past — a moment you tried to deliver something your own way and buried what you should have brought to the Father. Confess it. Set it down. Let the Father lead the next deliverance instead.