Moses

Hello, friends, enemies (I don't think I have any but you never know) and undetermined acquaintances! How are you doing? It's been a week since I have seen my eldest brother. How the time flies. Anyway, remember when I wrote about Paul and said that my drama team is doing a human video about him? (Come to Apex May 14th!) Well we have another one about Moses. So I thought I'd write a post about him!

So I'm sure you know about little baby Moses in the basket, but I'm going to tell you about it anyway. Ha! When Moses was born, the Pharaoh was a bit paranoid. He decided that if the Israelites had sons, they would grow up try to overthrow him. It might have been true, but what he did was a bit drastic. He made a law against them having sons and had them all thrown into the Nile. Well Moses's mother didn't want this to happen to her son, so she hid him until she couldn't anymore. Then she put him into a basket and let him go off on the Nile, hoping that he would be found and saved from a watery grave. Well someone did. The Pharaoh's daughter (named Bithiah according to Wiki) did. Moses's sister Miriam was following him (I often wonder if she was supposed to or if she just wanted to make sure her little brother was safe) and she asked Bithiah if she wanted her to get a Hebrew woman to nurse him. Miriam seemed to be cunning, because she got her own mother to do it.

He grew up and probably found out that he was an Israelite at some point. (Go watch "Prince of Egypt" because it's probably completely accurate. Yeah. Totally 100% accurate.) One day he saw an Egyptian beating up an Israelite (aka Maddy and me). He acted quickly, and ended up killing the Egyptian. Ashamed, he fled to another land and got married. He was most likely going to settle down and live a quite and happy life. God, on the other hand had big plans for him. It wasn't long (just kidding, it might have been years, I don't know) before he saw a burning bush that told him he would be freeing the Israelites. Moses wasn't very good at talking, so God had him buddy up with with his bro, Aaron. So they went and talked to Pharaoh, who probably laughed in their faces. He wouldn't be laughing for long. God sent horrible plagues to Egypt including water turning into blood, frogs, lice, flies, diseased livestock, boils, thunderstorm of hail and fire,  locusts, darkness, and the death of the firstborn child. Pharaoh finally let them go, but changed his mind soon after. If you want that story, read the Bible. I'm not going to write about that.

Well, the Israelites didn't always do what they were supposed to and God had set some rules into stone (yes, literally). Even then, they still didn't listen. Moses had to convince God to not destroy them multiple times. If he hadn't, things might have been different. And all this from a man who couldn't speak well. God can change things through you no matter what your problems are. He can make a difference in you.

Sarah