How to do this
Read the scripture(s) provided
Answer the questions on your own or in your group
Scripture
Exodus 2:15-22 (ESV)
15 When Pharoah heard of it [Moses killing the Egyptian], he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharoah and stayed 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 The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock. 18 When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?” 19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.” 20 He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.” 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah. 22 She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner[a] in a foreign land.”
Questions
Before he killed the Egyptian, Moses was living in luxury. He was a Pharoah in the making with the world at his feet. The day after, he was alone in the desert, where he would spend forty years. What personal transformation happened in Moses during those forty years? Look at the scripture above. Some of the answers lie within it.
It may help you to know at this point that the Hebrew word for "desert" is midbaar. It comes from the word, dahbaar, which means, "to speak". The desert is the place where God speaks, where he communicates his most important messages to us. If you have ever been to a real desert, you will know that the only sound you can hear is a howling wind that throws sand at your face. There is nothing to stop you hearing from God in these barren/distraction free places. The desert wears many faces - yours will be unique to you. If you have experienced one, how did you make the most of it? If one is yet to come, how will you make the best of yours?
Read Psalm 119:67 and Psalm 119:71-72. How can you apply this to your 'desert times'?
In Deuteronomy 32, the Holy Spirit pens these words about the nation of Israel: "He found himself in a desert land, and in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him. He cared for him. He guarded him as the pupil of his eye." Replace the 'he's and him's' that relate to Israel with your own name. How does this make you feel about your wilderness seasons?
One of the Praus Movements key values is 'goodness precedes greatness'. Having read the story of Moses and answered these questions, what does that value mean to you?
End in prayer
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