"At a lodging place on the way the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him".
Now what is going on here? His wife, Zipporah realised that it was because Moses had not circumcised his son, so she took action to put this right, and Moses life was spared.
Now, given all the trouble that God had had persuading Moses to go on the mission, and now that he was finally on his way, God would just be relieved that things were under way. Or, if this was so important, why did He not deal with it before sending Moses?
In our own lives we can sometimes find that God seems to bring things up at the most inopportune times. Maybe as you are preparing to preach God will suddenly raise an issue in your life and this needs dealing with now. These may be issues that have hung around for ages, why couldn't God have raised last week, or last year, or wait till next week? Why now?
Well, the long and the short of it is that I have no idea, but two things I know are: (i) when God does raise an issue in our life we are going to get no peace until we do deal with it, so the sooner we accept the situation and get on with it the better; and (ii) when we go to a new level (as Moses was doing here), a new level requires a new degree of holiness, and things we may have "got away with" before can no longer be tolerated.
God met Aaron and told him to go and meet Moses. Then they went to the Israelite leaders, told them what God had said, and performed the signs. The leaders believed and worshipped God.
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