In the third chapter
of Exodus Moses said in the eleventh verse, “Who am I…” Moses was raised in the palace of Pharaoh and
became the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
Moses was treated like a son in that palace but he became estranged from
Pharaoh when he slew an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew slave.
Moses
fled from the presence of Pharaoh to the west side of the Midian desert to a
place near to the mountain called Horeb.
There he transitioned from being a prince in Egypt to being a shepherd
of Jethro’s sheep. Somehow Moses seemed
to lose his identity and self-respect.
While he was in this state of mind he asked God, “Who am I?” In his change of situation from being the son
of Pharaoh’s daughter to being just Moses the sheep herder, he became very
insecure.
In
the midst of all this change and insecurity, Moses saw a bush flaming but not
being consumed. Moses saw an angel of YHWH
in the midst of this bush so he went to see this unusual sight. “And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to
see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses.
And he said, Here am I” (Exodus 3:4).
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