Moses: A Man of Selfless Dedication

by Charles R. Swindoll

Earlier in this book, I mentioned God’s Wilderness, the large, pictorial volume my sister gave me. It features several pictorial pages of Sinai. One photo of the southernmost area of the Sinai range carries the following caption: “The awe-inspiring granite peaks at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula seem to form a gigantic fist of God proclaiming: ‘Here! Here!’ The ever-changing, ever-deepening colours of the mountains in this part of Sinai invest this indescribably beautiful region with an aura of sanctity, and one can well believe that here God appeared to Moses.” And then the book adds, “Israeli scholars, who explored the Peninsula in the brief period of Israeli occupation, came to experience a holiness pervading Sinai’s mountains, and they believe that it was in this region that the Israelites encamped when the Law was given.”1