“Moses was tending the
flock of his father-in-law, Jethro.” The man who had been brought up at the
royal court in Egypt,
associating with some of the most learned and cultured people of that age, has become
a Nobody. Other passages in Scripture tell us that Moses is now an old man of
80. His meaningful life is over. But not for God. God calculates
differently. Precisely at the time when neither Moses himself nor anyone who
knew him could possibly expect that he would achieve anything significant, God
breaks into his life and calls him to do what he had miserably failed to do
half a lifetime before.
The
call reaches him on a day like any other. “The angel of the Lord appeared to
him in fire flaming out of a bush.” Moses hears a voice calling: “Moses,
Moses.” The double call is a sign of special love, and life-changing. When God
called the zealous Jewish persecutor Saul outside the Damascus gate, he called twice over: “Saul,
Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
So it is now for Moses. “Come no nearer,”
God tells Moses, “remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where
you stand is holy ground.” Never in Holy Scripture is the encounter with
God routine or ordinary. Always there is awe, even fear.
“The
cry of the children of Israel
has reached me, and I have truly noted that the Egyptians are oppressing them,”
God tells Moses. How surprised Moses must have been at these words. But also
how gratified. The words which follow, however, shock him to the core of his
being. “I will send you to Pharaoh to lead my people out of Egypt.”
Me? Moses
asks in astonishment. “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and lead the children
of Israel out of Egypt?” To
which God replies simply: “I will be with you.”
God
says the same to us, when we are faced with what may seem impossible. “I will
be with you.” With Him we can do all things, even the impossible.
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