Exodus 2: 11-15: “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. 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. 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? 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. 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.”
Moses was well trained and knew that he was an Israeli but he didn’t know the Lord. He decided that he would act in his own way in his own time instead of trusting God to work in His way at His perfect time. He also needed to learn something about dealing with average people rather than the sycophants he would have met in the court. The Lord was ready to move Moses on to the next stage of his life but Moses had to make the choice to identify with his own people rather than with the people who had adopted him. When this happened the Lord took Moses out of Egypt and into the desert so that he could get to know the Lord as the God of all the earth.
(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
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