Couldn’t help it, the thought just popped into my head as I was reflecting on the Exodus story. I realized that God didn’t send Moses back to Egypt to face his demons, but God send Moses to deliver his people out of bondage, like the bondage he was in concerning his true identity being a Hebrew but yet brought up an Egyptian. When Moses was grown up and found out he was Hebrew, in Exodus 2:11-15 he went out unto his people and saw their burdens and there was an Egyptian who was beating one of them and Moses killed him. He then had to fled from the face of Pharaoh, who sought to kill him. He questioned if there was God, why wasn’t God getting them out of their bondage. If he only knew God was waiting on him to come into his presence and acknowledge him; his purpose for being drawn out of the water and brought up in the palace by the Pharaoh’s sister as an Egyptian, was to wait patiently for Moses to come into the knowledge of who he is, not an Egyptian, but a Hebrew to deliver his people from their bondage. God did hear the cry of the people and of Moses regarding how he felt about Hebrews situation. Moses was like a single man and looking for a spouse to have a relationship with and  share their life with until they found God. They came together to care for these unruly children which they both love and cared about. These children are the reason for them coming together in the first place.

First Moses was like I don’t think I could do this, I don’t have what it takes to be a good parent I have issues but then God was like I am going to stand all the way with you through this, you’re not going to be alone we are going to do this together (Exodus 3 and 4). Now Moses left the children with the babysitter Aaron whiles up in the mount getting instructions from God on the next step in parenting. They felt he was taking to long, or maybe he had left them, when God told Moses to get down from the mount, for the people have corrupted themselves (God’s motherly instinct when your child or children is in trouble). Moses came down and found all hell had broke loose with the children. Sometimes you have to know who to trust to leave your children with to hold the house together when you’re not around(Exodus 32) Moses was so angry at Aaron he asked him what did they do that he brought such a sin upon them. Aaron says, “don’t be angry Moses these people like being mischievous and asked me to make them a God to go before them cause they didn’t know where you were.”(Exodus 32:21-24) Aaron was just not stern and discipline enough to handle these children without the assist of Moses being around.

Moses had to take back control after everything was out of control when he’d left them with Aaron and God wasn’t too please with the children either, who were so disobedient, rebellious and stubborn. God called them stiff necked people and wanted to consumed them(Exodus 32:8-10) It was like God was ready to have an abortion and Moses pleaded for them (Exodus 32:11-14) But when he came down and saw what they were doing in the camp, dancing and worshipping a golden calf they made and then he cast the tablets of ten commandments at them(Exodus 32:16and19)  He understood God’s anger towards the Israelite children. Then again (Numbers 11:10) Moses heard the weeping throughout their families every man in the door of his tent and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly and Moses got so discourage and displeased with the people that he started to rant and rage at God for giving him the responsibility for them. All of a sudden it was God’s bad children not his(Numbers 11:11-15). God had promised to be with Moses so he gave him all the help he needed so he wouldn’t feel frustrated and angry. He even gave the children what they wanted  so they would stop complaining and misbehaving(Numbers 11:16-35).

Isn’t this like typical parents to start fighting among yourselves because you have a problem with a child or children. It is never your fault or from your side of the family, somebody has to get the blame. One parent is always trying to make excuses most of the time it’s the mother and the other who is very stern at not accepting of any excuse: the father. Funny with God and Moses they switch like good cop bad cop. There are some parents who play the same game with their children, especially those going through or in a divorce where they want the kids to like them the best. And then there are those kinds of parents who want so much to be loved by and be their child or children friend that they would spoil them rotten. But not these two one is either hot or cold, and with good reason when they work together they become warm, just the right temperature to settle the matter. Doing this they were both working together as one even though there are many times one is always ready to throw in the towel and call it quit.

I can’t help but be angry at Moses meddling father-in-law Jethro(Exodus 18:14-25) for making Moses lose sight of the one accord he and God was working in for the people when he came up with the brilliant idea which got Moses weak. The reason for me saying that Jethro’s idea was the reason for Moses getting weak is before he pointed it out to Moses, what he was doing was not good for him or the people and it will wear him and the people with him out for it was too heavy for him and he is not able to perform it alone(Exodus 18:17-18) Moses didn’t even realize he wasn’t cable of handling all that was given unto him, after seeing all that God had done as he said he was going to do through him and with him to deliver the people out of Egypt. Moses knew and felt God was with him as promised so he could of only done it through him and would of continued doing it. He started out by not having enough faith in God and himself, to all faith in everything in God. Have you ever found yourself doing things or something that defies the norms and don’t even realize you shouldn’t be able too? Like being a single parent working two jobs, having dinner ready, being there for homework, showing up for after school activities, lunches made and kids tucked in bed, cleaned the house and the next day start all over trying to never miss a beat and your child or children, so well mannered and structured. Then here comes someone telling you shouldn’t or I don’t know how you do it, because if it was me I’d burn out, and I just couldn’t or wouldn’t do it. But through having faith in God you can boldly say, ” for it is by the Grace of God I am able and capable.”

Moses had, as scriptures declares in(Numbers 11:16-17), seventy spirits upon him and God decided to take off the seventy spirit  and place them upon seventy elders to help him carry the burden of the people when Moses ranted and raged about all the constant demands, wining and complaints of the people. God also ranted and raged and got angry enough, that three thousand died and were plagued (Exodus 32:28 and 35) When God came with the discipline, all bad had to go, his way definitely had an impact on the children that terrify them. Both God and Moses  always gave into whatever the children wanted and complained about. Like a typical loving parent who will never leave nor forsake their child or children no matter how bad or good, whatever they maybe. After everything Moses and God had done for these people they still weren’t satisfied they continued to whine and complain now wanting water. God had, had enough even Moses too with these people, if it was not one thing it was the other and they always go back to saying like spoiled children the same things to hurt Moses and God(Numbers 21:5-10 And the people spoke against Moses saying why did you bring us out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? there’s no bread and our soul loathes this light bread. Number 20:3-5 And the people contended with Moses and spoke saying, “if only we had died when our brethren died before the Lord! Why have you bought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here? And why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates nor is there any water to drink.” When they won’t fighting against God like making the golden calf as a sign of rebellion they began to complain about Moses leadership. Even Moses own brother and sister spoke out against him(sibling rivalry) and God was not pleased at what they were saying, just like a mother again and they were disciplined(Numbers 12:1-16). Numbers 21:5-10 God then sent a fiery serpents among the people and they bit them and much people of Israel died. Once again for their wining and complain, but as usual Moses plea for them and God delivered them.

Sometimes as parents the love for your child or children can make you sin your soul by getting angry at them. You do and say things you really don’t mean at times. That’s what happened to Moses at the water of Meribah  Numbers 20:8-13 God told Moses to speak to the rock instead he hit it because he was so angry at the people for their ingratitude and complaining again after everything that had been done for them. Being a parent is a gift when you could be patience, loving unconditionally, caring, forgiving and understanding. This is what I’ve learned from them both that you shall be tried in all aspects, but never give up.

If God is omnipotent (having great or absolute power or influence) why not use it against us to change things to be the way he’d want it for us instead of us putting up a fight and him giving us free will? I guess it’s because as a parent even though your child or children were created by you there’s no control over them, they weren’t created like a robot, they weren’t programed. There’s nothing other than to guide or influence them into knowing to choose that which is good and to make wise choices. If God is omniscient (having infinite or very extensive knowledge) and he knows the out come of our lives why all the struggles, frustration, and pain we must live through. I guess like a parent we can’t live our children lives for them for them to learn. They must go through their own life lessons to really understand and learn for themselves.

Moses and the Israelites were united as a family looking for stability in coming together finding a place to call their own not just where they could fit in , but was theirs. Coming to truth to who they are, the Israelites rooted in God not the world they live in or what held them a slave, but give them liberty. Moses greatest accomplishment to me was his relationship with God and to lead the people he so cared about out of slavery in Egypt. To be rooted and grounded after so long of not know where he belong even though he had fit in perfectly anyway he was placed by the grace of God an Egyptian for a time and now a Hebrew. And God, our father God whom seem to have had no idea what little monsters he created when he’d created humanity got lesson taught to him about how stubborn, disobedient, rebellious and remorseful us humans can be.

God is and will always be the parent operating in our lives. Matthew 23:9 “Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your father, which is in heaven.” And to me anyone who shall be called mother or father, minister, teacher, whatever and is  being responsible for a human being period better be operating in one accord with God like Moses. Dealing with human beings, you definitely need divine intervention.