{"id":6309,"date":"2009-04-30T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/2009\/04\/moses-and-god\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:07:00","slug":"moses-and-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2009\/04\/moses-and-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses and God"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u201cI want you to do this, the future hangs on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I don\u2019t know if I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, I am only asking you to speak to Pharaoh and tell him what I tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I don\u2019t know what scares me most\u2014him ignoring me, or what happens if he does let your people go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not just my people, Moses, they are your people too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I am here in the desert\u2026I feel safe out here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, and I have been preparing you these past forty years.  You will be coming back!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really want to do anything new; I like my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, and now I have molded your youthful impulsive foolishness out of you; I am ready to send you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I might just make things worse, like when I killed the Egyptian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, you will at first, your people will hate you when Pharaoh punishes them for what you say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut why do you want a murderer, anyway?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will not share my glory with another, so I am glad you realize your need of my grace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I can\u2019t even speak clearly, God, can\u2019t you send my brother?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will send him with you, but you must go and free them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I don\u2019t know if I can!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Based on Exodus 3-4)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI want you to do this, the future hangs on it.\u201d \u201cBut I don\u2019t know if I can.\u201d \u201cRight now, I am only asking you to speak to Pharaoh and tell him what I tell you.\u201d \u201cBut I don\u2019t know what scares me most\u2014him ignoring me, or what happens if he does let your people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pentateuch"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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