🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
Now Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds. —Acts 7:22
Moses was willing to dwell with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses. Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom, for he says,”I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.” —Exodus 2:21
🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿
Over the holidays in California, we dropped by a myriad of places. One evening, I walk into a Japanese restaurant and hear my name being called. Friends from Johns Hopkins who married one another. They were visiting from Tennessee and staying in a hotel adjacent to ours. In a state with a population of 39 million, we run into each other.
The next night, we went out to eat. Two Hopkins families and their kids. Graduates with 20 years individually of incredibly differing experiences. But the conversations that were the most meaningful were the ones related to Johns Hopkins.
A nesting place is often associated with a home location. But there is another type. A spiritual nesting place. Johns Hopkins was my spiritual nesting place. My walk with God grew there. Dramatically. Devotedly. Definitively. I walked into Hopkins wondering. I walked out of Hopkins worshipping.
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Meet Moses. He has had two nesting homes. In Egypt as a prince. The first 40 years of his life were a political nesting home where God prepares him to learn and live the ways of the Egyptian court to deal with Pharaoh later. But the next 40 years of his life are his spiritual nesting place. In the land of Midian as a shepherd. Moses dwells with the tribe of Jethro. He marries Jethro’s daughter and has two sons. Moses acquires skills to lead flocks and a family. He learns to be hidden in God, humble before God, and hungry for God.
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Spiritual nesting locales are places of gravity and growth. Serious stuff transpires. Faith flames afire. Moses drifts into Midian a weary wanderer. He departs a steadfast shepherd.
God changes our circumstances into character-building campsites and campaigns in our spiritual nesting places. We leave tender for God and transformed for His glory.
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