The call that almost killed him – by God.

Moses is on the road back to Egypt, having just been commissioned by God. We are all good. Yet we are going to read a very strange few verses of what happens next.

Basically, God decides to kill Moses.

It’s one of the strangest verses in Scripture. Moses has a call, but he has an uncircumcised son. He’s about to stand before Pharaoh and demand freedom for God’s covenant people, while his own house isn’t right with the covenant.

“At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Mosesand was about to kill him. ²⁵ But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it.“Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. ²⁶ So the Lord let him alone. (At that time she said “bridegroom of blood,” referring to circumcision.)” Exodus 4 v 24-26

God doesn’t care how big your assignment is if your own home is out of order.

It’s Zipporah who saves him, just at the right moment; she knows what Moses has let slide.

So the Lord let him alone.

God can call and send you, and then stop you dead if the covenant in your own house has been neglected. Gifting isn’t the same as obedience. Calling doesn’t cover for what you’ve left undone at home.

Sort the altar in your own house before you go build one for everyone else.