Met on the Way

“God sought to kill Moses” -- Exodus 4:24-26 is one of the most enigmatic in the Old Testament.

God met Moses on the way, not at the beginning of his calling and not at its climax, but in the vulnerable space between obedience and fulfilment. It was there—on the road toward confrontation with Pharaoh—that the real battle revealed itself. The threat was not yet Egypt, but what remained unresolved within.

Before Moses could face the powers that enslaved God’s people, he himself had to stand fully within the covenant. This encounter was not about destruction, but about alignment. God prepares His servants for spiritual warfare not first by strength, but by obedience; not by strategy, but by surrender.

So too with us. Often, we expect resistance from the world ahead, while God confronts us quietly along the way. He meets us to strip away what is incomplete, to seal us again in faithfulness, so that when the battle comes, it is not fought in our own strength but in covenant unity with Him.

Those whom God sends into battle; He first prepares in secret. And when He meets us on the way, it is not to stop us—but to make us ready.
Amen