Hey, church family, it's time for DeVos.

If you've got your Bible, we're going to go to Exodus chapter 3, where God calls Moses into his calling.

The Bible says this, now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian,

and he led his flock to the west side of

the wilderness, and he came to Oreb, the mountain of God. Now, the reason, just in case you're not

super familiar with his story, Moses is like 80 years old now, and the reason that he is

leading, that he's working for his father-in-law as a shepherd is because

though he grew up in Egypt and he grew up in the household of Pharaoh, at one point he killed a guy.

He killed an Egyptian that was attacking his Jewish brother.

And so somebody ratted him out and so he is on the run. And so this is what he's doing

here. And I am sure at this point in his life, he is probably thinking that his best days are not

ahead of him. He's probably thinking his best days are behind him. And even though in our like

Bible bookstore world, we make a big deal out of being a shepherd.

We hold it up in high esteem, partly because Jesus said he was a good shepherd because David was a shepherd, Moses is a shepherd.

But in reality, it was like the lowest of low of all jobs.

It does not take a lot of skill.

You just got to keep your sheep from drowning, eating poisonous

stuff, and occasionally if something comes in a predator to take out your sheep, you do have to

man up and fight the thing. But it did not take an incredible amount of leadership or intellect

to be a shepherd. And so this is where Moses is.

And again, Moses, I'm sure he's thinking,

this is conjecture on my part, because I don't know what he was thinking,

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