“The Ten Commandments”

A series on the story of redemption
The story of Moses.
(Click on the link below to read the verses.)
Exodus 3 

[Everybody has a story. Even God has one. His is a story about love and redemption and faithfulness. In this series we are going to take a closer look at God’s story through the lives of the people that He touched. How their story became His story of redemption. And how your story is also a part of it.]

In the 1956 classic movie “The Ten Commandments”, Charlton Heston played Moses in a larger-than-life portrayal. With the main points of the storyline taken from the Bible, it was basically the story of Moses’ life.

 

Biblically, there were three life changing events for Moses. If it wasn’t for these three events, he wouldn’t have been in the right place at the right time. They were pivotal in Moses’ story. And they were also pivotal in God’s story.

 

The first was when he was just a baby. In order to save his life, his mother placed him into a basket in the Nile River. Ironically, Pharaoh’s daughter discovered him, and she raised him as her own son with all the privileges of a prince.

 

The second event happened when he was a grown man. He witnessed an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave. In retaliation, Moses killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand. However, when Pharaoh learned what had happened, he set out to kill him. So Moses became a fugitive and fled to Midian.

 

The third event occurred at a well when he rescued the daughters of Jethro, a Midianite priest. Jethro’s hospitality to Moses ultimately led to him staying with Jethro, marrying one of his daughters and starting a family.

 

Here’s the confluence of these three events. One day as Moses was tending Jethro’s sheep on Horeb, the mountain of God, he saw a burning bush. Although it was on fire, it wasn’t burning up. As he drew closer, God spoke to him through the bush.

 

⁷ The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. ⁸ So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey…. ¹⁰ So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”     NIV

 

God may not speak to you through a burning bush. But he can speak to you through the story of Moses. There is much that we can learn about the Lord from his story. Not only how he worked in Moses’ life, but also how he works in ours.

 

For instance, God worked through Moses’ circumstances to bring him to the burning bush. He also works through our circumstances. But he doesn’t always do it in the way that we expect him to. Just like Moses certainly wasn’t expecting the Lord to call him to lead Israel out of Egypt.

 

Moses had many doubts about obeying God’s call. So the Lord promised Moses that he would be with him. That same promise is true for us today.

 

The Lord is faithful. In fact, his faithfulness can be seen through his covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and continued through Moses. That same covenant was fulfilled through the life, death and resurrection of his one and only son, Jesus.

 

The title of the movie was “The Ten Commandments”. But a more apropos title would have been, “Great is Thy Faithfulness”. Not quite as catchy, but more descriptive of the story of Moses’ life. It’s also true for your story and mine.

 

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