God's unlikely candidates
Exegetical note: Moses' troubling lack of hesitation or remorse over his act of murder aside, the real point of that incident, as well as of his assistance of and sojourn with the Midianites, seems to be his rootlessness and lack of identity before his call: he is born Hebrew, but reared Egyptian; exiled from Egypt because of his passionate defense of his true people, but then adopted a second time by the Midianites, though regarded by them as an Egyptian. The picture is of a man with a very unstable background, an unlikely candidate for God's call.
Call to Worship
