Playing in the Sand

Exodus

chapter 2

11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?"
14 The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid and thought, "What I did must have become known."

• I read this the other day and got thinking about it, how long do you think it took Moses to bury this guy? How did Moses know the Hebrews were his people? How did Moses know killing was wrong because he hadn't recieved the 10 Commandments yet??????




• Moses killed someone and knew it was wrong and tried to bury his sin. I think this is still true today. We still try to bury our sins. But I think that really we want to be figured out, so we can stop hiding and putting on an act that everything is just fine.




• In Verse 14 this really rung true to me. Moses was put as Judge and ruler over the people, but just not yet. But his God given ability was now hindered because of our sin. How can we become the people God wants us to be until we are able to stop doing things that we know are wrong.