Deliverance cannot be forced. Even righteous causes collapse when pursued with unrighteous methods.

Exodus 2 reveals how zeal without timing can wound the very mission it longs to fulfill.

In this episode of In the Garden, Exodus 2 unfolds against the backdrop of Pharaoh’s brutality. A fearful king turned the Nile into a graveyard, commanding Hebrew baby boys to be thrown into the river. Yet God quietly overturned evil. A child placed among the reeds was drawn out of the water and named Moses—preserved for a purpose.

Years later, that same Moses witnessed injustice. An Egyptian beat a Hebrew slave. The text tells us he looked this way and that, saw no one, struck down the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. The oppression was real. Pharaoh’s cruelty was undeniable. But two wrongs do not make a right.

This episode explores t ...