One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Exodus 2:11 | NIV
It is interesting that like Jesus, nothing much was reported about the growing up years of Moses. But after he had grown up, the scriptures report his first known activity in the house of pharaoh. On this occasion, he went out to the place where his fellow Jews were and observed the mistreatment of one of them by an Egyptian, and in defending his fellow Jew, he committed murder. It is possible that this may not have been the first time that Moses would be seeing a Jew mistreated, but this was the first time after he had grown up that this happened in his presence. What he once accepted as a child, he could not allow to continue a grown up man. My purpose is not to pass a value judgement on what he did in defence of his fellow Jew, but to point out that maturity placed a demand on him to the extent that what he once overlooked, he now resisted.
As we mature in Christ, the same must be true for us, that there are things that were once acceptable to us when we were young that are no longer allowed. The apostle Paul speaking of the contrast between childhood and maturity said that when he was young, he spoke as a child, but now, as a grown up, he put childishness away. This is the point I am trying to make. Are there not things that we once allowed as children but now that we have grown up have stopped doing? If this true in relation to our physical growth, it is even more required of us in our spiritual walk. So now that we have grown, let's put away the things that belong to childhood and behave differently.
Toni
It is interesting that like Jesus, nothing much was reported about the growing up years of Moses. But after he had grown up, the scriptures report his first known activity in the house of pharaoh. On this occasion, he went out to the place where his fellow Jews were and observed the mistreatment of one of them by an Egyptian, and in defending his fellow Jew, he committed murder. It is possible that this may not have been the first time that Moses would be seeing a Jew mistreated, but this was the first time after he had grown up that this happened in his presence. What he once accepted as a child, he could not allow to continue a grown up man. My purpose is not to pass a value judgement on what he did in defence of his fellow Jew, but to point out that maturity placed a demand on him to the extent that what he once overlooked, he now resisted.
As we mature in Christ, the same must be true for us, that there are things that were once acceptable to us when we were young that are no longer allowed. The apostle Paul speaking of the contrast between childhood and maturity said that when he was young, he spoke as a child, but now, as a grown up, he put childishness away. This is the point I am trying to make. Are there not things that we once allowed as children but now that we have grown up have stopped doing? If this true in relation to our physical growth, it is even more required of us in our spiritual walk. So now that we have grown, let's put away the things that belong to childhood and behave differently.
Toni
