I was recently at a menās breakfast where the speaker announced that Moses' (not Charlton Heston, btw) main problem was that he didnāt know who he was, and that if we donāt know who we are we wonāt be able to serve God either. I doubt that was the case, at least with Moses. When he says this to God: āWho am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?ā Exodus 3:11 ( ESV ) he is using a rhetorical question. It means, roughly speaking, āI am not the one to go andā¦ ā. Itās not that he didnāt know who he was, but that he thought he wasnāt worthy. Reading chapters 1-2 would have helped the speaker know that Moses, though he had grown up in the royal household of the Pharaoh of Egypt, knew he was a Hebrew, and had killed an Egyptian. Our problem is that we read the Bible through the lens of modern psychology, Freud in particular. If only we would get into the Hebrew mindset rather than Freudās, we would do much better interpreting the Bible.
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