PrincipledMom™

We often discuss God's Principle of Individuality. It comes up a lot. (Did I mention a LOT?) It is the foundational principle from which all other principles arise. I love to talk about it. I love to talk about it with a 7 year-old. I love to look for it like treasure. But Monday we stumbled upon it quite by accident.

We were in our JBC studying about Moses this week. We were reading through the text when we came to the part about Moses in the wilderness:
Exo 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
Exo 2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Exo 2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
Exo 2:19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.

I had to stop right there. I had not noticed this before. Why did the women think Moses was Egyptian? He was Hebrew. It doesn't say he told them. This was very interesting, so we had to reason for a moment. Why would they think he was Egyptian and not a Hebrew? she reasoned four answers:

• his language (the way he spoke)
• his appearance (his clothing and hair)
• his name (given from the Pharoah's daughter)
• his mannerisms (uniquely his as he was raised Egyptian with his Hebrew mother in his youth)

I thought there were great reasons that she discovered. The women were looking at his outward individuality and making a judgement about where he was from and how he was raised. And we had to bring it around to God's Principle of Individuality.

Individuality is of utmost importance to God. I am learning more about this from Ms. Katherine Dang and will share more insights on socialism and individuality later.

I was glad we were able to take this small side trip on our journey through godly leadership this week. We will see how this contributes to Moses' leadership later in the week.

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