FAULTY FOUNDATION

 

FAULTY FOUNDATION. 

I was reading a book last night and the author talked about faulty foundation with Moses as a case study. 

People often talk about Moses' survival story but people rarely talked about on what foundation it became. What happened behind the scene: The pain, the tears, the scar. 

Exodus 2,

Moses was born at a time young boy of his age was targeted for a kill, a time of massive genocide. Innocent lives of newborns were wasted and blood flowed on River Nile like water. 

Babies cry so I can imagine Moses' mother gagging him with clothes so that his cries would be unheard, I can't imagine the number of time his mother locked him in a wardrobe whenever the soldiers raided, I can't imagine the number of times his sister, Mariam panicked when she saw crocodile approached him in the basket while he was on the water. 

It wasn't that Moses' mother didn't love him but things spiralled out of control. She thought, "I'll rather put him on the water than let the soldiers come in my house and kill him", so she did what she thought was right.

Everybody blamed Moses for being an angry man with unhealthy outburst but nobody really considered what he went through as a child. 

Even though it is not excusable but this man literally survived what killed every child in his age. He had his liberty taken as a baby so he used every opportunity to express his frustration to the point he killed an Egyptian. He had his voice taken as a child so he stammered. 

Moses' traumatic childhood affected his adult life to the point he killed, to the point he broke the ten commandments, to the point he grinded the golden calf and gave it to the Israelites to drink, to the point he struck the rock rather than spoke to it, to the point he led the people out of Egypt but lost the privilege to take them to the promise land. His traumatic childhood programmed doom into his future and it won over God's agenda for his life. 

Many of us suffer from traumatic childhood, many of us have unhealed wounds that continues to bleed over God's agenda for our lives but in the name of Jesus, after tonight, those wounds will heal! 

For everyone suffering from effect of traumatic childhood, the Lord will comfort you, Jesus will take away the scar and you'll be free from every hurt. In Jesus name, Amen.