We’ve been talking about Moses in a negative context, using him as a contra example, because it is in his flaws we can, if we will, recognize our own. It is when we see his insufficiency we will recognize our own and, ultimately see the super-sufficiency, the over abundance of God. So here’s the major premise: Moses was a coward essentially all of his life. Here’s the minor premise: so are we. Now Moses was not fearful in every situation, nobody is, but at the very end, on the cusp of complete victory, Moses was a no show.
Can you think of anything particularly fearful that Moses did? I can think of a couple of big things like running away after he killed the Egyptian Overseer, or trying to talk God out of sending him to lead the Exodus. There were also instances where he seemed fearless like protecting the daughters of Jethro at the well or standing while Pharaoh’s chariots rumbled up at the Red Sea but none of those are the incident I want to talk about.