Keeping God’s commands is what counts.
Has anyone ever saved your life? If so, was it your spouse?
I don’t think I’ve ever really been in life danger, but Cameron has definitely saved me from injury or embarrassment more than once.😅
Someone whose life was saved more than once is Moses, and every time his life was saved, it was the doing of a woman. First, the midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, who courageously disobey the orders of the Pharaoh to kill all the boy babies they delivered. Then Moses’ mother who hid him to prevent his murder. Next, Pharaoh’s daughter, who had compassion on him, protected him from her father’s murderous hands and adopted him as her own.
Finally, much later on in Moses’ life, it was his wife, Zipporah, a Midianite, who saved his life because he was about to be killed… by God! 🤔
The Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. ‘Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,’ she said. So the Lord let him alone. – Exodus 4:24-26 NIV
This is one of those stories in the Bible that makes little to no sense to me and is hard for me to digest. Why would God appear to Moses in a burning bush, calling him to be the greatest Israelite leader in history, only to nearly kill him and just a few verses later?!?
This story is undoubtedly better understood when you unwrap all the layers of Midianite and Israelite culture, the custom of circumcision and the original text of the Bible, which goes far beyond the scope of today’s Chamatkar.
But I do want to point out one beautiful takeaway from this seemingly absurd story: true leadership starts at home (1 Timothy 3:4-5). In their commentary on the Old Testament, Keil and Delitzsche remark:
If Moses was to carry out the divine commission with success, he must first of all prove himself to be a faithful servant of Jehovah in his own house.
Circumcision is no longer a requirement (1 Corinthians 7:19), but there are many other things we can do to lead our family well.
Can you think of something you can start doing today?
