Jubilee: Belong (Exodus 3:1-10)

It’s clear that part of what it means to be human is to have a deep desire to connect to one another, to live in community, to have and feel a sense of belonging. That shared desire means that we all also know what it means to feel as if we are out of place. Constantly trying to figure out where we fit in.

What happens when you believe you’ve found that place of belonging just to realize that you don’t belong as much as you thought?

One biblical figure who didn’t exactly know where he belonged was Moses. Caught in between two worlds, born Hebrew, raised Egyptian, Moses struggled to find a place and a people to belong to, to call home.

Yet, it is in his very displacement that God’s plan for Moses materializes. In the work of Christ, God has proclaimed that we belong. And not only that, like Moses, our displacement and our struggles are the very place where God instills purpose. The church can be and is called to be a place where we can belong. A place where we can heal. A place where we discover who Jesus is and what he has done for us.