Moses. Having grown up in the prestigious environment of Pharaoh’s lavish courts, Moses had positioned himself to embrace a remarkable political future. After murdering an Egyptian citizen, however, Moses fled to the plains of Midian, where he married the daughter of a local priest. He spent the next forty years tending his father-in-law’s sheep. It wasn’t until he was eighty years old that God finally plucked the once-Egyptian prince- turned-shepherd, out of obscurity and into the annals of greatness. You read correctly: He was eighty! David.
