STORIES FROM THE BIBLE---4--4

                                                   Moses--4

 

   When Moses become a man, he went among his own people, leaving the riches and ease that he might have enjoyed among the Egyptians. He felt a call from God to lift up the Israelites and set them free. But at that time he found that he could do nothing to help them. They would not let him lead them, and as the king of Egypt had now become his enemy, Moses went away from Egypt into a country of Arabia, called Midian. He was sitting by a well, in that land, tired from his long journey, when he saw some young women come to draw water for their flocks of sheep. But some rough men came, and drove the women away, and took the water for their own flocks. Moses saw it, and helped the women and drew the water for them.

 

   These young women were sisters, the daughter of a man named Jethro, who was a priest in the land of Midian. He asked Moses to live with him, and to help him in the care of his flocks. Moses stayed with Jethro and married one of his daughters. So from being a prince in the king's palace in Egypt, Moses become a shepherd in the wilderness in Midian.

 

   But Moses did not remain a shephered. While he was tending his sheep God appeared to him in a burning bush and told him that he should return to Egypt and become the leader of his people. The load told him  that the wicked Egyptians would be punished for the ill-treatment they were giving the Israelites. In your Bible you will find in the book of Exodus how God wouderfully fulfilled his promise. The Egyptians were punished by many plagues, and finally allowed the Israelites to go. They cross the red sea in a wonderful way, and travelled for a long time through the wilderness, where God fed them day by day with manna from heaven. God also gave them rule as a guide for their daily living; these rules we call the Ten Commandments; yet they forgot the Load so far as to make images and worship them.