Exodus 2 – Looking for the God of the Desert ~ Constable
Mar 29th, 2009 by Steve C
Exodus 2:11-3:15 ~ A Way Through the Wilderness ~ March 29, 2009
“Moses, homeless, nationless, entirely unsure of who he is other than murderer and fugitive, ends up at this well in the middle of what must have seemed like nowhere. And it’s vital moment for us too – where God has humbled you or shown you stuff about ourselves you haven’t wanted to see, and like CS Lewis who wrote after his conversion that ‘what I found appalled me: a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was Legion.’ It’s a wretched moment but absolutely necessary if you want to grow, if you want to be useful for God – to see yourself really as you are in your great sin and need. We want to see these wilderness times – loneliness, joblessness, purposelessness, childlessness, directionlessness, achievementlessness, an aberration – off the true path – but Moses’ story subverts that idea. No, this is the path and perhaps sitting by this well, the one fixed point on it.”
