"The Great Refusal of Moses"
“The Great Refusal” of Moses How important it is for you to know who you are? Do you allow others to decide who you are and then try to fit into their frame? In allowing so have you come to finally discover that it gives no good yield? An individual’s self-identity plays an important role in his or her character-building process. Here is an example from the life of Moses, which I believe will challenge you! ‘Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter’ (Hebrews 11;24) Moses was born a Hebrew, but he was raised as an Egyptian by Pharaoh’s daughter. He owed so much to the Egyptian Pharos for saving his life from death and preserving him to become the second in command in Pharaoh’s Kingdom. “The great refusal” Moses made as written in the book of Hebrews, deprived him of the treasures and wealth of the Pharaohs’. It also earned him Pharaoh’s wrath. A lot of people fall into such situations where they have to be the person that others would w