Week 2 January 2026, Devotion Part 2

Moses, Moses! …put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.  Exodus 3:4-5

It is now do-or-die time, but God will not allow us to move on the impulse of a moment. We only have our Midian and Egypt on the brain. Our burning desire for a passage between the two that sounds plausible, impels us to rush at Him as our Helper. He, however, has shown up as the Holy One of Israel. His chief motivation is Covenant. In our very personal appointment with destiny, God is building a highway of sacred purpose that will bring other pilgrims to their desired haven of His benevolent design.

When we are fired up about an exciting prospect as committed churchgoers, we want to “jump on the horse of discipleship and ride off in all directions.” Moses stood barefoot in God’s presence. His feet confirmed that reverence, not rash movement, was called for. This was no sandy dream beach off a pacific ocean of choice opportunities, but rock-strewn desert ground swathed in thorny vegetation. Therefore it was God’s time alone to make the sudden move and usher in His undeniable NOW season.  Part 2 of 2

Comment: “One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens… And God heard their groaning…And God saw the people of Israel, and God knew their condition” (Exodus 2:11; 24-25).  These two poignantly related statements take on added weight when we realize that forty years lie between them. That translates into 350,640 hours of heart-wrenching pleadings for deliverance from cruel oppression.  Moses lacked God’s kind of stoicism and killed himself an Egyptian. That one rash act grew into a forty-year lesson that endures to this day: The Lord would rather grow for himself one dependable collaborator than help Himself to the “amateur providence” (Oswald Chambers) of large numbers of the impatient and panicked. Why settle for fickle when the job calls for faithful?  His forty years in Midian turned Moses into a “meek” man after God’s own heart. It means “much enduring and disinterested.”  He was no longer moved by the heat of the moment but motivated by the heart of his Master. In Hebrews 3:5 Moses is honored as the servant who was faithful in all His house, implying Israel as God’s household of faith. The common Greek word for servant in the New Testament is doo’los, or slave. The sole exception applies to Moses where therap’-ohn is used. We derive the terms therapy and therapist from its root. Notice the verbs that make for a servant of Moses’ caliber: to wait upon, to adore, to relieve of disease, to cure, to heal, to worship.  What a far cry from the hotheaded days of the murdered Egyptian!  If ours are groaning times because we are yearning for our kind of “good old days,” beware of grumbling for the garlic and graves supplied by Egypt’s slave masters.   Lest burning resentment consume us, we relinquish our thorny issues to God and choose reverence for Him above all.  Let His majesty mature our meekness and make us into “therapists” of Moses’ value to our Lord and His Church.  Exodus 3