Bothered
Have you ever paid attention to what gets you fired up? And I am not talking about a good football game or someone cutting you off on the road. What bothers you? When you look at the world around you what do you see and think to yourself, "this isn't right" or my favorite pre-teen phrase "that's not fair". There is something to those strong feelings, but let me come back to that. This week I was reading from the book of Exodus about the story of Moses. Being raised in the Egyptian palace, Moses could have lived his whole life with privilege and riches. But one day Moses began noticing the Hebrew people (the people he came from) were being oppressed and treated very severely. I can only imagine he burned with righteous anger seeing the people treated as slaves and when he witnessed an Egyptian beating a Hebrew it says, "After looking in all directions to make sure no one was watching, Moses killed the Egyptian and hid the body in the sa