bajanfloyd

I agree with Stan. He seems to be displaying a combination of the three. I read somewhere in the study that Moses was educated and was a strong speaker. Yet he claims a speech impediment, which God appears to accept while offering an alternative. As Pastor Wilson suggested, his reaction may be a sign of his brokenness. He may have consciously dropped the trappings of education and royalty while adopting the lower status as a shepherd. Thirdly, he clearly does not know God. "Who shall I tell them has sent me..." If he is going to have difficulty explaining God to the Hebrews, he really is saying, "I am unqualified". While faith is trusting in the unknown, do you not have to know God to have faith in Him? God reassured him by saying, "I will be with you". He went on to tell him that he would prove it by having the Hebrews worship at that very place later on. I do not know how much help that was to Moses at the time. God gave us his Word. He reassures us through accounts like this one in Exodus. Also he sends people and situations to us as inspiration. We just need to see and hear them.

I do not want to go off-track, but if Moses had raised up an army and killed thousands of slave drivers and Egyptian soldiers, his people (and we) might have commended him. Instead, he killed one man and they (and we) chastised him and saw him as a villain for that. Putting aside the benefits of Bible history, though, and basing a tentative conclusion on chapters 1-4 only, at this point, he is a thug and a coward.

Moses was clearly Egyptian, raised in their ways. However he was trying to identify with "his people". He may have been struggling with some internal issues when he killed that man. He may have been identifying with the underclass or trying to prove a point to himself. He may not have been recognized or accepted as Hebrew. Also, he may not have known God and therefore may not have been seeking to lead anyone anywhere at this point. Can we infer arrogance at this point? Maybe not. Some confidence? Maybe so. Moses is just a worldly man at this point, wearing princely robe and trying to fit into two worlds.