On one hand, Moses had the most privileged upbringing - the only surviving boy in a generation living in the Egyptian Palace. On the other hand, he had an identity crisis.
Moses.doesn't fit in anywhere. He didn't feel like an Egyptian, and he didn't feel Hebrew. He killed an Egyptian when he came to the defence of a Hebrew slave being abused. But when he tried to intervene in a fight between two Hebrews, they threatened to expose his murder.
With a warrant on his life, Moses fled to the wilderness. Moses who never felt at home in Egypt found company among the nomadic peoples in the Midian desert. They invited him to be homelss with them. He took a wife, and started a family.
Write
Think about your faith story: how have you experienced not fitting in?
Where in your life, relationship or circumstances, do you feel homeless - a loss of connection and belonging?
Who do you know feels homeless?
Pray
What
is God saying to you today? What's Good News to you?
Talk to God about your experience with feeling not-fit-in. Thank God for the way he joins you in your homelessness, and makes you at home with him.
Pray about your present difficulties. Ask God for the help you need, the reassureance of his presence, and the courage to trust his reasons for allowing the hard times.
Pray for your friend who feels homeless. Ask God how you can help.
Pray for an experience of God's love, grace and mercy in the way he joins you in your wandering, and in the ways he connects you with other wanderers.