FAITH AND DESTINY- BY PASTOR GREG ELKAN.

_By faith Moses…refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;_ – Heb 11:24

Have you observed how perfect the narratives of the “Elders” in  Hebrews 11 seem? Honestly, their stories read like something a skilled novelist would pen. 

Check these out:

• Jacob runs from a vengeful brother and stumbles upon a stunning, drop-dead-gorgeous damsel at a well.

• Abraham brings 3 ‘random’ strangers from the street into his house and they end up being divine. 

• Joseph in prison translates the dreams of just the right person who could get him out – but who conveniently “forgot” him until Egypt was ready for Joseph.

• Moses’ mother dumps him on the Nile and Pharaoh’s daughter (and no one else, not even her advance security guards!), picks him up and accepts Miriam’s proposal to bring “a nursing mother from the Hebrews” (translation: “his real mother”); as if Pharaoh’s daughter has no Hebrew women slaves around her. The irony being that, far from Moses being killed by Pharaoh’s order, he grew up in Pharaoh’s house – while his mother was _PAID_ to feed him!

• Moses kills an Egyptian, and – running away from Pharaoh – stumbles upon a stunning, drop-dead-gorgeous damsel by a well. (What’s with this running-and-meeting-beautiful-damsels-at-a-well thing anyway?)

We could go on down the list and study the narrative of the lives of Joshua, Rahab, Gideon, Samson, David, etc. and find out how their mostly unconscious actions led them to doing great things that had far-reaching implications. 

Don’t you just want a picture-perfect life like that? I do. But none of the strangers I was ever kind to turned out to be angels, none of the wells I’d visited had my ‘soulmate’ waiting there, and the only ‘angels’ I saw the night I slept out with a stone as a pillow were mosquitoes ascending and descending my body!

Why do the lives of Bible characters look perfect? It’s simple, their lives only seem that way because we are reading them from the perspective of history. They themselves didn’t _know_ that what they did would result in changing the world, they just did what they did based on their current faith. 

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AMEN...

PASTOR GREG ELKAN.