Well, Spring Break is over and everything is back to normal...whatever that is, right? The kids are back in school, you are still at work, and life goes on. The weather is getting progressively better and warmer, and the promise of summer seems more and more a reality. But for many of us, there is something that keeps our hearts in a constant season of winter. Sure, some of us, when we come to church, get out our "I'm doing great" masks and wear them around proudly. That is, until we get in our cars to drive home and toss them in the back seat where we'll call upon them again the following week.
One of my favorite things about the Old Testament is the honesty of the Hebrew people. They didn't feel the need that we do, to pretend that everything is ok when it's not. They were a broken people for hundreds of years and they were brave enough to record that brokenness in their most sacred of writings. When we meet them in Exodus, they are at their lowest point. They have no home, they have no pride, they have lost their identity as the most blessed of all people on the planet, and they are crying out to God for deliverance. Restoration. This is where we meet the most important person in the Old Testament, both to the Jews as well as the world: Moses. But he's not the only influential one. We are going to be taking a look at Moses' sister, Miriam.