Bluelip

"And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?" Exodus 2:11 The Bible has many stories of prophets and heroes that did not know their role in God's plan until the moment that he needed them. Every story in the Bible deals with God's plan across time. It is sometimes demonstrated by the life of a single man or at times by the passages of a people through history. Moses' life was such a story. His mother's plan of placing the infant Moses in an ark on the river to avoid the Egyptian threat to kill all male Hebrew babies led to his rescue by Pharaoh's daughter. His youth was explained simply in the scripture: "And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son." We can only imagine the lavish life a prince of the court must have enjoyed. This beginning was crushed when Moses, as a young man, lost his temper and killed an Egyptian overseer of the Hebrew slaves. His life was over as he knew it when he fled to Midian to escape Pharaoh's wrath. To end your life as a sheepherder after such a promising start can only be understood by someone who has actually followed a herd of the fragrant creatures. Dust and dung. The point is that God eventually called on Moses from a burning bush to return to Egypt and rescue the Israelites, his people. Moses was uniquely positioned to fulfill this role. Having been a son of the court he was surely known by whomever was still there. At the very least this gave him a path for an audience in the Pharaoh's court that no other accused murderer might have. No guard at the gate remembering the man would dare to act out violently withoutchecking with his commanders first. Moses' entire life was planned by God to give him a special handiness even if he couldn't recognize it himself. He doubted it enough to question God himself about the choice. That is serious doubt in the face of evidence as clear as a burningRobbins, Mark is the author of 'Bluelip' with ISBN 9780976582106 and ISBN 0976582104.