Great leaders learn from failure. Moses fails both by the world’s standards - he gives up all the riches of Egyptian royalty to be with his downtrodden people; and, he fails by God’s standards - he takes God’s justice into his own hands and operates from his flesh, murdering an Egyptian. Both failures lead him to the desert. But it’s in the desert that God does his redemption. It’s in Moses’ isolation that God works wonderful things for good. The same is true for us. Our desert experiences are often the time God teaches us and develops us in ways we could never experience normally. And his promise is never to leave us there.
By Ed Flint