Dear Family,
Today is Friday, May 7, 2021. This is Day 6 of Week 6 in our Counting toward Pentecost. It is our 41st day of Counting.
During this 6th week of the journey, Moses received a special visitor, his father-in-law, Jethro; who brought Moses’ wife and sons to be with him in the wilderness.
Exodus 18:1-6 (1) When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt; (2) Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back, (3) And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land: (4) And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: (5) And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God: (6) And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
Zipporah is mentioned only 2 other times in Scripture; first in Exodus 2 when she married Moses, and then in Exodus 4 where we see Zipporah and her sons on the way to Egypt with Moses where he was to tell Pharaoh to let the people go. Zipporah and her two sons had returned to Jethro’s home some time after the events of Exodus 4. Apparently, Zipporah circumcised her firstborn son to save his life.
Exodus 4:19-20,25 (19) And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life. (20) And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand. (25) Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
Moses lived quite a busy life, dealing with life and death issues publicly and privately. The Bible only gives us meager details in the story of his family. However, whatever the family issues were, God was still very pleased with His servant, Moses. What we learn by putting the details together is that Moses was just a man.
Hebrews 3:1-5 (1) Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; (2) Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. (3) For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. (4) For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. (5) And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
May God bless us to consider our leaders; in and out of the Church; and, that we pray for their faithfulness to God’s directions.
Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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