Experienced at Fleeing...

One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?” He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.” When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well. (Exodus 2:11-15 ESV)
As we saw before in this chapter, Moses was proving his "qualifications" for leading Israel out of Egypt.  The passage goes on to tell how he was willing to Stand Up for others. He had courage. Here in these verses, he was an expert at fleeing Pharaoh!  Those two may sound contradictory, but they are not. Fleeing is not always cowardly.  The "Exodus", the way out, was not just running away from captivity in Egypt. It was also taking a journey with a goal.  It was going to what God had for them. Moses was not just running away; he was running to where God wanted him, when and why He wanted him there.  Sometimes we do not flee not because we are being courageous, but because we are being lazy, complacent and compromising.  We need to be prepared to flee to experience God's best.