Maggie's Farm

God has always called the humble and ordinary, amongst others. But Moses wasn't exactly either. Raised like a prince in Pharaoh's palace, hot-tempered and unable to stay in the background when he saw that slave being beaten...

Not to be nitpicky, but I think that God calls all sorts and conditions of people. The one common denominator is that when He calls people most of the good ones are not sure they will be able to live up to His call. Remember in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe when Aslan asks the kid if he feels ready to become king, and he says not really, and the King says that if he did feel ready, it would be a sign that he was not. The doubt comes after initial enthusiasm, ie: like Peter, step out boldly on the water after their Lord, then panic and sink, or else in the form of initial objections and anxieties like Moses "What will I say? What will they think of me?"

What always intrigued me about Moses was the stew of conflicting influences on him that created the Hollywood patriarch that I still think of first: lovingly nursed by his mother, dotingly fostered by Pharaoh's daughter, pampered and educated at the heart of Egyptian power, strange stirrings and confusions, finding out who he really was, having a strange and daunting yet glorious mission laid on him..

Many people we know become humble belatedly as Moses did. I know an aggressive and hugely successful company founder who returned to his family's original spiritual roots in later life and mellowed so noticeably that people wondered what happened...The Ahha recognition that "So it isn't all about ME after all..."