God-Ordained Marriage
Exodus 2
Ex 2:21 Moses agreed
to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
EXODUS 2 is all about Moses, but let’s
consider Zipporah. The daughter of a wealthy man who lived in the Sinai desert region,
Zipporah likely had no particular plans for life. She was simply “going along”
in life when BAM! God sent His Deliverer to her doorstep.
Of
course, neither she nor Moses knew what would happen about 40 years after their
marriage. But God did. God knew Moses would need a wife strong in will and
duty, one who had grown up around a father of some wealth and strength with
some apparent understanding of leadership in her family. She understood how to
respond to authority, too, as she obeys her father to marry this stranger.
And
then look at Exodus 4:24-27: At a lodging
place on the way, the Lord met (Moses) and was about to kill him. 25 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. 26 So the
Lord let him alone.
Translated, it is likely that Moses had not
circumcised his two sons, and the LORD met Moses here to kill his sons and keep
them from entering into Egypt. Zipporah realizing her sons’ danger, took charge
and did the bloody act to appease God and bring them into God’s covenant of
circumcision. This act also formed herself into a covenant child of God.
Zipporah understood the LORD’s authority, and now Moses’ family is complete.
It’s impossible to imagine the trauma and fear this woman would face alongside
her husband in the years ahead of them, but certainly God had formed her to be
a woman of faith to urge her husband on to become the Deliverer.
LIFE Link: A God-centered woman completes a
God-centered man.
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