Moses was a Wayfarer...the Wayfarer 11/11/14

Moses was a Wayfarer
11/11/14

“Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock.

And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

And they said, and Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.

And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.”

(Exodus 2:16-22)

Moses, having been saved from death at birth by the daughter of the King (Pharaoh) of Egypt who feared the prophecy of the coming leader of the Jews, then being raised as a Prince, having all the wealth and comfort of that life, eventually was forced to become a wayfarer, wanderer and outcast, then found himself in a new land, once again content with his place in life... content to remain there and simply enjoy what had been given him, despite the fact that he had been “ a stranger in a strange land”.

This was, however, not to be….God had other plans for this vessel that he chose for His purposes.

He had a function that needed to be done, and God would have no other to perform that function… so once more Moses had to be a Wayfarer… had to go where and when told by God to go… do what told by God to do and speak what told by God to speak.

Moses, complacent, had to come to this epiphany through the miracle of the burning bush. 

He had to hear God speak directly to him to take instruction to perform that particular mission for which he had been born.

Yet, even after that obvious miracle and visitation, he debated, questioned, would have denied that purpose, because of that same complacency, the unwillingness to leave the comfort of the life he had made for himself, the simplicity of merely being.

His arguments along with the miracle of the burning bush, and God’s response to those arguments are recorded in Exodus 3.

He was told by none other than the Great I AM that no argument would be brooked, and no response would be accepted other than facing those arguments, overcoming them and getting on about the business he had been sent to do.

Moses was a Wayfarer!

In closure I would again remind you that each of us must be, in some way, wayfarers.

Complacency and contentment with the things of this world will never satisfy the soul who has truly committed to God… and to the purpose set for us by His Son Christ Jesus to meet the requirements of the Great Commission.

I, the simple sinner saved by His grace through faith in that Son, cannot find contentment and complacency this side of the grave that awaits the body of mine, but must yet, still and always, remain the soldier, warrior, called to action until true complacency and contentment are rewarded for having been the wayfarer intended for us to be.

Praise must be given for the salvation obtained through the blood of Christ...The warning to all who will hear must be sounded that they too may find that salvation through the grace shown by the crucifixion and resurrection guaranteeing the promise of eternal life for all willing to give repentance in turn for redemption demanded by my Savior.

2 Timothy 1:12 King James Version (KJV)

¹² For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Even so come quickly, Lord Jesus.

Amen and Amen
the Wayfarer