{"id":1622,"date":"2020-05-20T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancylucenay.com\/staging\/8869\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:59:21","slug":"moses-how-to-fight-through-clouds-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancylucenay.com\/staging\/8869\/moses-how-to-fight-through-clouds-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses ~ How to Fight Through Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I gasped when I first saw the mountain. Wow! Fishtail was amazing, majestic, mesmerizing\u2026 until it wasn\u2019t. On our first day in Pokhara, Nepal, the locals exclaimed how fortunate we were to see the famous peak of the Himalayas. \u201cBut how could you not see it?\u201d we wondered. When day two arrived, the massive mountain vanished, disappearing behind the clouds. Despite spending a week in Pokhara, we never saw Fishtail again. Like Moses, we\u2019d seen God\u2019s power displayed and then lost sight of it. Has that happened to you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abandoned?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Born to slave parents, Moses\u2019 mother hid him until she couldn\u2019t. (Exodus 2<\/a>) Then praying, she placed him in a basket (Hebrew: ark<\/em>) in the Nile. God answered her prayers by sending Pharaoh\u2019s daughter to bathe at the right time in the right place, right where the basket floated. His cries stirred her heart, and she rescued him, raising him as her son. When Moses looked at his life, he could see God at work. Wanting to aid his people, he defended an Israelite by killing his Egyptian attacker. Pharaoh threatened revenge so Moses fled to Midian. His honor status<\/a> shifted from shame to honor to shame again. Had God abandoned him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moses\u2019 Terrifying Encounter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After 40 years of wandering in the wilderness tending his father-in-law\u2019s flock, Moses wondered whether God had forgotten him. Then he noticed a strange sight. Fires in the desert weren\u2019t unusual, but fires without destruction were. As he crept closer, he heard a voice. Bushes that burned without being consumed were one thing; bushes that carried on conversations, another. Moses\u2019 heart stopped when the voice identified itself as the God of his fathers. Collectivist cultural norms<\/a> demanded that the God of his fathers was also his God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Moses was grateful to discover God knew and cared about his people\u2019s suffering, God\u2019s instructions terrified him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So now, go. I am sending\u00a0you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.<\/p>\nExodus 3:10<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Despite later claiming to be slow of speech, Moses wasted no time in pouring out his excuses for why he couldn\u2019t do what God commanded. (Exodus 3\u20144<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n