Moses's Journey To Autonomy

God had prepared the life of Moses in order for him to guide the children of Israel out of bondage in Egypt. The first forty years of Moses’s life was spent living as Pharaoh’s son, which gave him the finest training as a leader at that time. He later became a shepherd living in Midian so that he may become the guide to the children of Israel. Lastly, he used his modules learned to stear the children of Israel out of Egypt and into the Promised Land. God chose Moses for a reason, to mold him into the leader the Lord desired for His people to bring them out of slavery and into liberty. However, the process from captivity to autonomy was grueling and extensive. The Hebrew people underwent different regimes on their journey to the Promised Land that took many years. From slavery, anarchy, equity, and hierarchy, the children of Israel underwent various rules. The author of Moses as Political Leader, Aaron Wildavsky, wrote that, “Under a regime of slavery” , the first regime the Hebrews underwent before reaching the Promised Land, this regime made …show more content…
Moses had to lead the people to an unknown place, to a strange land. As Moses dealt with Pharaoh and his people who did not listen to him, he was honest to confess what he perceived to be a weakness. This showed that Moses was after all reliant and dependent on God and not himself. Wildavsky states also that some of the problems that Moses would face are, “the ferocious power of absolute law and the weakness of human nature.” As the Hebrew people struggled to find a soul for themselves, they were yet undecided on worshipping one God. Their allegiance was yet to be known. Anarchy had its pros and its cons. The people would either have to form coalitions or order would have to be reimposed from the outside. As the mix multitude of people showed off their gods and made contracts with each other, the autonomy of the people was yet to be found through