(Exodus 2.23 – 3.15) – 30 August 2020
Neil Millar
There’s no question that Moses rose to be one of Israel’s great leaders,
perhaps their greatest, and yet his beginnings in life, and leadership,
were more than a little shaky. From last week’s reading we know that
he only survived his childhood because of the actions of compassionate
and courageous women – his mother, his sister, Pharaoh’s daughter.
Were it not for their protection Moses would surely have been
drowned, as Pharaoh had decreed. In the end, he grows up in Pharaoh’s
court – right under his nose. It’s a privileged place in comparison to his
oppressed kinsfolk but even this falls apart in time.
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