Saturday Devotion: Acts 7:22 and Proverbs 16:3

 Hello!

Read Acts 7:22:

Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds. Acts 7:22

and Proverbs 16:3:

Commit to the Lord whatever you do,
    and he will establish your plans.

These two verses might feel distant and devoid of connection, link, and combination, but there is some meaning behind this. Also read Acts 7:34:

34 I (God) have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you (Moses) back to Egypt.

The two verses might still feel distant even after reading another verse (that being Acts 7:34). Moses was well educated in all the wisdom of Egypt. He commited his time on learning and being educated and nourished with said wisdom and knowledge. But only a dozen verses later in Acts 7:34 God calls him when he is in the wilderness.

In the wilderness, he is tending the flocks and it seems like all his previously earned knowledge, which used to be valuable, and his eloquence in speech and dialect, which is useless (for the flocks and herds cannot discern human speech)was  without purpose nor function. 

But God called Moses and He established his plan: to lead the Israelites in the Exodus and to bring them from the land of Egypt to the northwest to the Promised Land. So we should commit to the Lord before setting about the plan for our future. 

But why the said order, why is the sequence so? Let us examine the possible scenario if the sequence is swapped around and we plan first before commiting. If we plan first without commiting, we often don't have the drive and the motive. We also lack resource. If we, for example, prepare or learn first, we have a much better preparation and it is less wishful and more realistic to plan out a goal when we have the resource to do it.

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