Dear Family,

Today is Tuesday, May 10, 2022, Day 3 of Week 4. This is the 24TH Day in our Count to Pentecost.

Moses seems to have had an inborn desire for what he thought of as justice. Certainly, God used him to communicate His law to ancient Israel, and God used him to sit and judge matters between people on a regular basis. Yet, Moses leaned in that direction even before his supernatural encounter with God and His perfect law. We first learn of this “sense” of social justice when he had to flee Egypt because of his personal way of trying to right what he saw was wrong. He simply did not know God’s standards of when and how to intervene.

Exodus 2:11-14 (11) And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. (12) And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. (13) And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong; Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? (14) And he said; Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, surely this thing is known.

And, when he arrived in Midian, Moses again personally intervened on behalf of the women who were being bullied at a community well. He was not afraid to stand up for what he thought was right.

Exodus 2:15-19 (15) Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well. (16) Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. (17) And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. (18) And when they came to Reuel their father, he said; How is it that ye are come so soon to day? (19) And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.

When God recruited Moses to communicate His law to the people, God knew Moses was the man He wanted for the job. Moses had courage to stand against “wrong.” He just needed the One True Lawgiver (James 4:12) to teach him His perfect standards for doing things.

How much sense of injustice does God’s Church have today? God is NOW judging the Church (1 Peter 4:17). He is training us to love His ways (i.e., what is right) and to hate what is evil. He wants us to intervene HIS WAY and in HIS TIME. Right now, at a minimum, we need to be sighing and crying for the injustices and wrongful acts we see, especially all the things God judges to be abominations in our land.

Ezekiel 9:4 And the LORD said unto him; Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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