{"id":2989,"date":"2007-09-12T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/09\/moses\/"},"modified":"2014-12-24T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T13:42:00","slug":"moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2007\/09\/moses.html","title":{"rendered":"Moses"},"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>Holy Moses! What I love about the man is his meekness. Brought up in the royal household, but kills a man and runs for his life. Learns the name of God at the Burning Bush, but doesn\u2019t flaunt it. Returns to court and steps up to the plate and leads God\u2019s people even though he doesn\u2019t want to. Crosses the Red Sea, defeats his enemies with a mighty miracle and just keeps moving on. Leads a rebellious people with patience that sometimes boils over, but still he intercedes before God for mercy for them. He meets God on the mountain, and his face is so radiant that he has to wear a veil.<\/p>\n<p>Like Abraham, can you sense the littleness of Moses? He\u2019s the mighty prophet, but he\u2019s the quiet man. He just wants to mind his own business, when God calls him to great things. He\u2019s often confused and full of self doubt, but still he follows God.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the mystic in the desert, the man whose wounded heart is open to God. 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