40 Days with Moses 2025 Year of Exposure Day 2: The Lord will provide help during our “detours.”

40 “Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. And she bore him a son. He called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.””

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭2:16-17, 21-22‬ ‭NKJV

How many know that the distance between point A and point B is not necessarily an indication of how long it will take you to get from point A to point B? And “as the crow flies,” is—in application—only a concept.

How many have ever started a day with a list of things you needed to do, and a “good plan” to get it all done? Indeed, your estimate of how long it should take to check off the list, definitely fit in the time you have to do it all. Now, that sounds great . . . except for the fact that your “good plan” got torpedoed in the first 15 minutes of execution. How did this happen?

What you did not/ could not account for were the intervening variables, things that might happen along the way: a flat tire, someone’s urgent need, a place is closed that is normally open, an “irritable” bowel, and so on, and so on.

Now, if we approached every plan, trying to think of all the contingencies that might come to bear, we probably wouldn’t ever get far past our planning into the actual doing. The fact is, you can’t account for all the unknowns.

If only we could keep from getting blindsided without doing the exercise in futility of trying to account for everything that might happen during the course of any journey.

The good news: There is One Who knows all things; and He can help you, even when unexpected events seem to have wrecked your plans. Yes, the Lord will actually provide what you need to survive the trial, the test, the detour.

Of course, all of our plans should be submitted to the Lord and we should follow His leading. But even then, life happens. But the Lord still makes a way.

“Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert. The beast of the field will honor Me, The jackals and the ostriches, Because I give waters in the wilderness And rivers in the desert, To give drink to My people, My chosen.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭43:19-20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

In addition to bringing support during the “detours,” the Lord can use those things that seem to have been sent to wreck your plan, to actually work for your good, to actually be what makes the desired end result come to pass!

“And we know [with great confidence] that God [who is deeply concerned about us] causes all things to work together [as a plan] for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to His plan and purpose.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭8:28‬ ‭AMP‬‬

When we left Moses last time, he was sitting at a well in the middle of a desert, having fled for his life from Egypt. Now, bear in mind, Moses was raised in a palace where he was treated as royalty. Now he finds himself in a desert. But we see that the Lord did not forsake him, but actually gave him the opportunity to ingratiate himself to one of the leaders of a desert tribe: the Midianites.

In fact, the Midianite people were desert dwellers; so they knew how to survive and thrive in what can be a very hostile environment. Moses would now spend the next 40 years in exile in the desert with people who knew about desert survival.

I wonder, will this experience come to bear in another part of Moses’ life? Or is this all just a great nuisance?

For today let us discover what Moses discovered:

The Lord will provide help during our “detours”. And, they may actually prove to not be detours at all.

Peace to you.

Jesus is coming! Get ready for Him!P