01.05.25 - Moses

January 05, 2025

Jay Vanderbur

his life can be divided into three chapters: The first third was an amazing success: Moses was adopted into the wealthiest family in Egypt. He had the best possible education. He was a skilled and decorated military leader. The middle third appears to be an incredible failure: A costly choice changed everything in the blink of an eye – he went from the palace to the pasture, from wealth to poverty, from freedom to felon, from a great future to a grim future. The first two chapters prepared Moses to be used in ways that he could not imagine – a burning bush, confronting Pharoah, crossing the Red Sea, leadership in the wilderness, the Ten Commandments – these things all happened over the last third of his life. What God was doing in the life of Moses - and what God often does in our lives - is take His time. It takes time to build character, and God isn’t always in a hurry.