This is the story of Moses. He didn’t really understand why some things were happening, just like we sometimes feel, but the truth is that he was actually chosen to do a certain thing. His responsibility was to help the Israelites, his people. God talked to him in various occasions, some may think he was just lucky, but it was because he had something to accomplish. This makes me think that maybe all of us have something to do in this world, in this life, and that’s why we are here. We might not understand why some things happen the way they do, but I deeply believe that everything happens for a purpose, Moses´ was to rescue them from all the sorrows and hard times people in Egypt had to go through.
Something I really liked is the way God is always with him and helps him and in a way tells him exactly to do. It´s like he tells you the instructions to do everything, and the best part is that you are actually free to decide to accomplish them or not. The same happens to us, maybe God doesn’t exactly talk to us but he does help us and tries to guide us, but we can decide if to follow or not. An example of this is seen in Exodus 3: 13 “And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, what is his name? What shall I say unto them?”, and then something that I would have never imagined happened. Moses had some sort of speaking problem, and that caused him to wonder even more if he was actually the chosen one. God doesn’t give up on him, but makes his spirits uplift and help him believe in himself. He gives him a companion, just like Gilgamesh and Enkidu, to help and support each other, always side by side.
He also helps him not to give up, but keep on fighting, because even though God was there on his side to ask the pharaoh to “let his people go” (Exodus 5: 1) it wasn’t completely easy anyways. He had to be persistent and very intense, so maybe he would convince him to let them go. There were many plagues and things that would have made me say yes in the very instant they talked about it, but the pharaoh was much more harsh and almost didn’t let them go, after many things had already happened and there had been a lot of suffering in Egypt, then he let them go.
Something a bit confusing was the way in which God, knowing the pharaoh wouldn’t change his mind still made Moses go and tell him, then when he resigned, and things started to happen, Moses would pray to god and things would become a vicious cycle and in a way it wasn’t really that effective, because God would send something bad, but them stopped it, knowing there wasn’t anything really good in stopping it because the pharaohs mind would still be thinking the same. This happened because the “Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.”(Exodus 7: 13)
At the end think finally change, and the journey of Moses and his people starts. I like how Moses help the people be positive and energetic about their surviving. He tells them, “Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.” (Exodus 13: 3) and no matter how much the pharaoh was after them and was so close to catching them he would continue telling them that “The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace” (Exodus 14: 4) this I believe gave them the hope they needed.
And indeed that was what happened. God did help them and they were able to succeed and prosper. But just in case they decided to do something improper, he gave them commandments to follow and now exactly what were the right things to do. The interesting thing about this is that those are the same commandments we use now a days.
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