God Calls the Least To Do The Greatest - Deuteronomy 29-31

 Deuteronomy 34:10-12 (ESV)

And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

When the name Moses is mentioned in most quarters of Christianity there is an instant reverence and awe.  Moses was a man who did not look for fame, did not think he should have fame and certainly didn’t have the resume for fame.   He was born in a time when boy children were to be killed after the came out of the birth channel.  When he was getting too old to hide at home his mother made a basket and put him in it and put the basket in the Nile River.  We are not sure what she expected to happen at that point.   Maybe she knew that Pharaoh’s daughter went their bath each day. Maybe she was such a great woman of faith she just knew God would protect him.   Maybe she had no plan and just released Moses to God’s care vs having him exposed to the plan Pharaoh had for Israelite boys.   Whatever the reason he was discovered by Pharaoh’s daughter and given a home in the palace.   But, he eventually exposed his heart and killed an Egyptian solider.   That sent him to the wilderness to tend sheep for 40 years.   That is where God called him to greatness.   This run-a-way fugitive from justice.  A murderer in the eyes of the both the Egyptians and his fellow Israelites.   This is who God chose to lead the people out of Egypt 40 years after his deed.   Yes, he was defending another Hebrew, but never-the-less he was on the run when God selected him for greatness.   He was even hesitant that day.  He came up with numerous reason he was not qualified to lead them. This is the man of whom it is said in the above passage, “... none like him ...!”    That is who God uses to accomplish his task.  Why?  Well, Moses told them why earlier, just before his death:

Deuteronomy 32:27 (ESV)

had I not feared provocation by the enemy,

lest their adversaries should misunderstand,

lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant,

it was not the LORD who did all this.”’

No man gets any credit for the good we do for God.  It is God working in us despite the bad deeds by us.