Misfit 𓁅

Moses may have been ethnically Hebrew, but he was educated by their enemy, likely had an Egyptian accent, and probably more than a few Egyptian “quirks”.

Moses belonged nowhere. He went from infant Hebrew slave to being raised as Egyptian royalty. From prince to a shepherd in a foreign land. And from “slow of speech and tongue” to a leader of millions of distrusting Israelites. …But God didn’t waste a single chapter of his life, and each stage was the perfect preparation to fulfill God’s purpose for him.

…in Egypt:

• His former royal status gave him access to Pharaoh during the 10 plagues.

• Educated “in all the wisdom of the Egyptians” (Acts 7:22), Moses gained the literacy to write the Torah (first 5 books of the Bible).

• His royal education gave him the statecraft, law, and logistics skills he needed to organize a nation of millions.

…in Midian:

• 40 years of shepherding taught him to survive in the same desert terrain he would later lead the Israelite “flock” through.

• Shepherding turned an aggressive hothead into a man “more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth” (Numbers 12:3).

Throughout Scripture, God uses misfit outsiders to fulfill His will. And Moses, never having a place where he belonged, longed for one thing above all else… to be in God’s presence.

Exodus 33:11

The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend.

Acts 7:22

Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.