The Life of Moses

[307 words] Moses was God’s man! He delivered the Law of God, the first five books of the Bible (John 1:17), wrote a number of Psalms, and led God’s people out of bondage and through their wanderings in the desert (Ex. 3:10). Many over the years have brought to our attention that Moses’ life is divided into periods of forty years: the first forty years he is trained in Egypt with the world telling him of his own potential and greatness, the second forty years learning humility with a few sheep in the desert (Acts 7:22-29), and the last forty years leading God’s wandering sheep out of bondage and through the desert toward the promise land on God’s terms (Ex. 4:24ff), not his own (Acts 7:30-44; Deut. 34:7). We all need to be reminded regularly that even though we belong to God, as a man or woman of God in…