lead Israel out of Egypt than Moses, who was Egyptian enough to confront the Egyptians and Hebrew enough to love the Hebrews. All of that was true, but it was not the answer God gave. If he had shown Moses that he was fully qualified for his calling, that would have led Moses to trust in his gifts rather than in his God. The real question was not who Moses was, but who God was, for “God said, ‘I will be with you’ ” (Exod. 3:12a). The exodus did not depend on the competence of Moses but on the presence
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