What Would You Do Like This?

Exodus 2:11
Moses Flees to Midian
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Exodus 2:12
Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Exodus 2:13
The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”

Exodus 2:14-15
(14) The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
(15) When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.

Exodus 2:16-17
(16) Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. (17) Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.

Moses got in trouble and ran away from Egypt because he got into issues that didn’t concern him. He couldn’t mind his business. He couldn’t ignore where there was conflict. If he had left those in conflict to do their thing he would not be in trouble. Moses intervened wherever there was conflict and that put him in trouble sometimes. What would you do like this?

Moses saw an Egyptian and Hebrew man fighting, he intervened and in the process killed the Egyptian. He didn’t have to intervene because he belonged to Egyptian royalty, but he intervened. What is it that you are so compelled to do even if you don’t have to do it? What would you do like this?

The next day, Moses sees two Hebrew men fighting. He didn’t have to intervene. He could have walked away and ignored it. Moses could have assumed that he has not seen the conflict. But Moses couldn’t help, he intervened. He got into trouble for intervening the second time. For fear of his life, one Hebrew man reported Moses and word reached Pharaoh that he had killed an Egyptian. Moses was so compelled to intervene in that conflict but now that intervention had put him in trouble. What would you keep doing even if it puts you in trouble? What would you do like this?

Moses ran away from Egypt where Pharaoh now wanted to kill him because he had killed an Egyptian. Moses ran away to Midian. By now we hope that Moses has learned his lesson and will not intervene in conflicts that do not concern him.

After arriving in Midian, Moses is resting near a well. Seven daughters of Reuel a priest of Midian come to the well to give water to their flock. Some shepherds came and chased the seven daughters of Reuel away from the well. Right before Moses is a conflict between the daughters of Reuel and some hostile shepherds. This conflict has nothing to do with Moses, but guess what he does without hesitation? Yes, he intervened and saved the girls from the hostile shepherds. Moses can’t help but intervene where there is conflict. What would you do like this?

What is it that you can’t help but do even after it has put you in trouble? That is what your character is. It is what you are. It may hurt you but you will keep doing it. You may not know yourself, but your close friends know something about you that you keep doing even when it puts you in trouble. Ask your close friends this question- what is it that I keep doing and can’t help doing even when it puts me in trouble?

It may be something negative like drug abuse, alcoholism, going back to an ex-friend who keeps hurting, wasting money on unclear investments or purchases, disrespectful language, etc. It could be something positive like refusal to be corrupted, speaking the truth, helping the needy to almost hurting yourself, etc. If it is negative then pray and start a process of rectifying. If it is positive be encouraged by Moses the greatest leader of Bible times.

Because of the actions of Moses, Reuel invited him to his house. Reuel gave Moses one of his daughters, Zipporah, to be his wife. Reuel lived with Moses for forty years until when God called Moses in a burning bush and asked him to go and intervene in Egypt. Moses couldn’t help, he went. What would you do like this?

We learn from Moses that if right becomes your habit and character, you will not be discouraged when it gets you in trouble. We learn from Moses that eventually God rewards those who do right with a good life and bigger responsibility. Moses got a good life for forty years in Midian and he got a bigger assignment to intervene for suffering Israel in Egypt. Even if right puts you in trouble and you have done your best to evade trouble, keep doing the right!

May God, help us to find something that we will consistently do whether it hurts us or not, and ultimately May He rewards us with a good life and bigger assignments, in Jesus’ name, Amen!

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