Moses lived the quiet life of a wilderness shepherd, so different from his life in the court of Egypt. During that forty years, Moses’ dream of delivering his people died. His grand vision of himself gradually shrank until, finally humbled, Moses was fitted for the task God had in mind all along. Moses’ call by God (Ex. 3–4). When Moses was eighty years old, God appeared to him in a burning bush and commissioned Moses as His people’s deliverer. Reading the text, it’s clear that Moses didn’t want