Do You Know Who Moses Was?

Of course, we all know who Moses was: Prince of Egypt, and the greatest lawgiver in Israel's history. He was the man who got in Pharaoh's face, and delivered a nation out of bondage. Credited as the greatest of all times, Moses talked to God face to face as a man talks to his friend.

Moses was a holocaust survivor; the only child spared when male children was being destroyed. He was brought up in the palace of the Adolph Hitler of his time, and was trained to be a Pharoah. How did he do? He failed his first test of deliverance. He murdered a man and was forced to flee into the desert and hide out for forty years with a bunch of sheep in the desert sun.

Later a change came into Moses' life. He had an encounter with God in a burning bush; the same God who spared his life and protected him from childhood destruction (Exodus 3).

From a man trained to think, talk and walk like an Egyptian, Moses became one who refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing to suffer affliction with the people of God (Hebrews 11:24-25).

Was he crazy? He could have been a Pharaoh! He could have had his own pyramids and a gold coffin. He could have been famous. Instead, he cast his lot with a crazy band of people that hardly wanted to escape bondage; a people who complained so much that Moses struck the rock and died himself like so many in the wilderness (Numbers 20:7-13).

Centuries later, three fishermen watched in terror as a cloud came down over a mountain where they had gone to pray with Jesus. On that terrifying day, they heard the voice of God and fell down with fright. They saw Jesus standing with the prophet Elijah and someone else who had made it into the mountain. Who was this person standing with Elijah, the greatest of the prophets? It was not a mummy propped , bandaged, put on display, carried from town to town displaying the glory which once was Egypt. It was a live transfigured Moses; the one who made it to the promised land, just as the Lord declared (Luke 9:27-31).

Moses made his choice; Pharaoh made his. Now, who do you think was the real loser? Each of us are just as precious to God as was Moses.

What choice will we make. Will we go the way of the great men of the, or will we pay the cost to follow God? The choice is ours to make.