Moses Humility

Moses was born to two Levites. His mother hid him for three months as the pharaoh was killing all the Hebrew’s children. When she couldn’t hid him she made a basket, put him in it, and floated it down the river. The pharaoh’s daughter found the baby and took pity on it. She nurtured the baby and took it as her own.

Throughout this well written passage the author reveals the character “Moses” through multiple literary elements and rhetorical devices. Some techniques that are used are metaphors, imagery, and selection of detail. The author reveals who Moses really is through deep connections. There are also multiple different devices that are intertwined within these techniques and descriptions that help reveal when Moses truly realizes his character throughout the detailed passage. The author, jones does not begin his description until midway through the passage where he states “he was the only man in the realm, slave or free”, this is believed because he wants to give background information about the character Moses before he tells all.

Last week we looked at the first reason God tested the children of Israel- to teach them humility. Today we will look at the second reason-to see what is in their hearts.

As Moses grows he becomes aware of his lineage and takes notice to how oppressed his people are in Egypt. While leading a flock out on the side of a mountain the angel of Jehovah appears in a flame and a bush begins to burn. The bush does not erupt into ash and Moses is awestruck. God calls to Moses and begins to relay him his destiny. God says “I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows, and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians… and unto a land flowing with milk and honey”

There can be multiple reasons why God favored Moses. One can be that because Moses was born Israelite but grew up Egyptian, he had the connections to talk to the king that Aaron and Miriam might not have had. Another reason I think that God favored Moses was because he was an unlikely candidate to be a leader, this meant that he had to trust in God more. This trust in God gave him a better relationship with God than Aaron and Miriam had. Miriam and Aaron both grew up Israelite so they did not have the connections that Moses had. I also believe that God favored Aaron and Moses over Miriam because she was a women and thought of as lower than a man. This is why Moses was favored most by

While it most definitely is Jesus getting down and washing the disciples’ feet, being willing to serve others even when the tasks aren’t the most glamorous, and situations or actions such as these, sometimes humility looks like being open to see things from another perspective. This involves admitting that you might not know everything or that your way might not be the best way, which requires a lot of humility. I never really thought of humility in this light much before. However, this will now be tied to my definition of humility when I think about it from now

Biblical humility is humanity way of accessing God’s community of grace. True humility is an interdependent relationship of trusting God and others with yourself.

I must take humble approaches continually to not only grow personally, but to be best used by God to reach others. In am encouraged that when humility is maintained, the Lord will do the heavy lifting in my life (James

In his book, the Book of Pastoral Rule, Gregory discusses the importance of humility, and states the following, “No one presumes to teach an art till he has first, with intent meditation, learn it” (Gregory the Great, n.d. p. 573). Therefore, exclaiming that the nature of humility is an essence of pastoral care, “highest post of humility,” therefore, no one should take on such role without proper preparation and attainment of such quality (p. 587). It is evident in the following statement,

“Blessed are the meek” for they will inherit the earth. First of all, the meek are those who are humble, gentle, who see themselves inferior to everyone else around them and in God’s eyes, never superior. The meek are also those who don’t seek vengeance or revenge and don’t hold grudges. In the movie, Rudy demonstrated this beatitude when he offered to volunteer to work/clean up the football field, but the janitor decided to pay him.

Moses was a humble man, but God sees that he is mightier than Moses sees himself. When God tells him that he must lead the Jews out of Egypt, he grows fearful and unworthy of such a task. Moses humility toward God is what makes him capable of such a tremendous mission. Although, he would have much rather not lead the Jews out of Egypt because he is afraid and does not have faith in himself, however, he is able to do it because God has told him to and God would not ask him to do so if it was impossible. Moses successfully leads the Hebrews out of Egypt. Moses was capable of freeing the Jews of slavery with a quality of humility (No Title, 1986).

Having grown up in the lap of luxury and a lavish lifestyle, Moses was unaccustomed to hardships. To lead his people to the Promised Land he had to learn to be content with a simple way of living. He needed to be acclimatized with the hardship of the desert-extreme temperatures, constant thirst and meager resources. God knew that the wilderness would be the place of his future ministry. Later on during the desert wanderings, when the Israelites constantly complained about the lack of resources, Moses showed great endurance in putting up with the hardships of the

The book of Hebrew 12- 1-2, starts by encouraging the readers to look at the life testimonies of great leaders from the bible, how they were able to achieve success and greatness through humility and total surrender to Gods will. None of them became victories as the result of their own power and might, but we see the grace of God. Their life style pleased the lord and so he makes them champions over their challenges. Also, the book instructs believers to drop every heavy weight and sin so they will run the race set before them. Our greatness is hidden in our calling. If we do what we are called to do in harmony with humility, greatness is inevitable. Ironically, what happened in Babel is in fact what is happening in our world today. Presently, every day people are building their own towers higher and higher to achieve greatness. One of the greatest teachings of Jesus recorded in the bible is that his unique equation for greatness. He said, “Whoever wants to become great among you must be servant.” Mathew 20:26. Quite the opposite from what the earthly definition is. Jesus is saying, greatness is only obtained by living the life of humility and

The Book of Proverbs, found in the Writings, the third division of the Hebrew canon, is a unique book, entirely different from the rest of the Old Testament. There is no mention of the Israelite forefathers, God’s promises, or narrative of any event from Israelite history. Similar to Job and Ecclesiastes within the genre of Wisdom literature, the Proverbs focus on patterns of life to observe the acts of God , rather than declaring direct messages from him. The purpose of Proverbs is to instruct the reader in attaining wisdom, the ultimate pursuit. The word “wisdom” (hokmah in Hebrew) occurs thirty-nine times and the adjective “wise” (hakam) forty-seven times throughout the 31 chapters. The scope of wisdom applied in the Book of Proverbs ranges from wealth to work to the words we speak, encompassing nearly every aspect of life.

This paper will point out three major events in the life of Moses, the son of Amram and Jochebed. He was known as the friend of God. “And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God” (James 2:23 King James Version). The events will then be related to timeless principles such as completely breaking ties to the world, taking on the desire and will of the one true God, having complete trust in God. And finally this paper will explain how these events and principles can be applied to human lives today.