that’s how I feel about this blog right now. 

Anyway, I was reading in Exodus last night and I came across this story.  I’m sure I’ve read it before, but I have no recollection of it at all.  Let me set the stage.  Moses just saw the burning bush.  He just got his commission from God to go back and wreck shop on Pharaoh (via God) and get the Israelites the hey outta Egypt.  Then outta nowhere this comes up…

24And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him.

25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

Say what?!  What just happened here?!  (I wonder if that’s what Moses was saying?)  One minute God is telling Moses what to say to Pharaoh the next minute God is about to kill Moses.  Then his wife does an impromptu circumcision with a sharp rock (I’m sure the kid loved that) then she chunks the result at Moses’ feet!  Seriously you couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.  And as if that whole situation was no big deal at all, Exodus just goes right back to telling us about how Aaron went out to meet his brother. 

I seriously spent the better part of an hour last night trying to figure out why this was where it was and what it’s supposed to mean.  Is it a picture of something else?  Or is it just a story of how seriously God takes our sin?  Am I reading too much into it or not enough?  Who knows!  I actually love stories like this though…you’re just chugging along reading stuff you’ve read before, thinking that you have a pretty decent understanding of it all and then you realize you just read something about somebody throwing somebody else’s foreskin at somebody else.  Sometimes I just have to say "ok, God…if you say so."   

p.s. you can thank God for the TMI in this post…I had nothing to do with it.