Song # 1211.1 from Our Gospel In Song Collection by Col Johnston. We read in the Book of Exodus in chapter 2 that Moses had to flee Egypt after killing an Egyptian that he saw beating a Hebrew man.
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labour. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people (Exodus 2:11). Glancing this way and that and seeing no-one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand (Exodus 2:12). 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?” (Exodus 2:13). 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” (Exodus 2:14). When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well (Exodus 2:15). Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock (Exodus 2:16). Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock (Exodus 2:17). When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them “Why have you returned so early today?” (Exodus 2:18). They answered “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock” (Exodus 2:19). “And where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat” (Exodus 2:20). Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage (Exodus 2:21). Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying “I have become an alien in a foreign land” (Exodus 2:12).
Thought for today: our living God can take the fear out of our living.
Thought for the future: when confronting difficulty, put your trust in God. Where will you spend your eternity?