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Who Am I...
14 x 20 inches - $160.00
20 x 27 inches - $250.00
28 x 41 inches - $345.00
Title & Text on print;
But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharoah and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" --EXODUS 3:11
This is the famous burning bush scene, where God first speaks to Moses. The bush is not in this picture because it is not the focus of this work. The principal theme of this picture is a pleading with God. Moses did not feel he was capable of doing what the Lord was asking of him. His feelings of inadequacy were also coupled with fear, because he fled Egypt after killing a man there. He was wanted for murder in Egypt, and now God was asking him to return to that land and do what seemed to Moses, an impossible task. This picture could just as well be entitled "Why Me?", that is very often our response to God, and so it was with Moses.
I did not at first receive any visions for this picture. The leading for this work came out of a deep sense of pleading with the Lord. That's all I had. For days, I kept getting a very strong pleading emotion. As I set to work on this piece, I was drawn to two different sets of scripture. When I began the rough drawing, I didn't know whether I was working on Moses or Abraham. This uncertainty bothered me considerably, and I kept asking the Lord for the answer. My answer was "draw pleading" . I just followed what the Lord gave me for that day, and continued working. Eventually the staff came into the picture and that was when I knew it was Moses, and Exodus 3:11.
When I finish a picture I get a sense of completion, and I stop. So it was with this picture, with one exception - the strong sense of pleading did not stop. Although I knew the picture was finished, the pleading would continue, off and on for months. Two or three months after completing "Who Am I...", upon entering my studio one morning, that same sense of pleading came over me. It was then, that the work on the drawing of "Intercession" began.