Moses Beliefs

The life of Moses, recounted in the Bible and many other historical documents, has long fascinated millions of people across the world. For thousands of years, Moses’s bravery, steadfastness, and, perhaps most significantly, the miracles that God used him to perform, have inspired many to great new accomplishments and personal victories. However, when most people look at the story of Moses, this is all that they see—miracles, courage, and an inspiration for living a moral Christian life. Unfortunately, many in the Church today do not believe in miracles or God’s supernatural power, and they therefore glaze over the true importance of this story for today. The life of Moses was meant to be far more than just a story; in fact, it was meant to

He was wise and feared seemingly nothing. However, forty years later, after the Pharaoh died and God confronted Moses in the wilderness, Moses appears completely different. Instead of being someone “powerful in speech and action”, Moses has become someone who believes himself to be “[weak] in speech and slow in tongue”— he claims to have a speech impediment and to be afraid to public speaking (Acts 7:22; Exodus 4:10)! Moses’s experiences appear to have instilled in him some form of self-doubt and fear of man, and possibly even some God-doubt, as he was afraid and almost refused to believe God’s promise for him and his life (Exodus 4:13). However, when Moses chose to give this up for God, giving Him his fear, doubt, and emotional injuries, God helps to heal his wounds and hurts by sending him back to the very people who had tried to reject him and kill him, raising him up as a strong leader who performed many powerful works and who was able to confront pharaohs and lead slaves. God uses Moses’s formerly greatest weaknesses to manifest himself as powerful and

Moses walked in a supernatural power that few before him and few after him walked in. He set a new precedent for his people, and showed them that God’s power is a very tangible reality, and he was able to help lead them into a covenant with God that few people had ever known before. However, before this, he had to surrender whatever plans that he might have felt were right for his own life, whatever idolatrous ways that he had learned from the Egyptians and from the pagan tribe of his father-in-law’s, and all that was comfortable for something that was, at the moment, uncomfortable and fairly unknown. However, he was able to replace it with something much greater—a personal relationship with God, where he was an open door for God to come and work among the people whom He had delivered, restoring their identity as a people, and showing them that they were not just slaves. This was to be a precedent for the relationship with God that his people are to have with Him as believers with repentant hearts, and shows only a small part of the spiritual blessings in which God wants to cover us as followers of Jesus, the