At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.) Exodus 4:24-26 NIV
The lesson here is clear: we cannot bypass personal spiritual obedience in pursuit of a larger calling.
Moses was on his way to fulfill one of the greatest assignments in history—to lead Israel out of Egypt—yet God was prepared to take his life because a matter of personal covenant responsibility had been neglected.
In other words, before Moses could be entrusted to “save a nation,” he first had to be aligned in his own house.
A leaders personal responsibilities to God, himself, and his family should never become secondary to the vision God has given him to accomplish.
Enclosure
- Martin A. Briggs
