Why did God make Moses a shepherd?
God sent Moses to the back side of a desert as a sheep herder to bring him down from Egypt’s second-highest position to nothing. This humbling prepared him to be usable, since God uses what the world considers nothing rather than the polished and powerful.
Les explains that Moses had become second man in Egypt, with power and authority over armies, civilian operations, road building, and bridges. Moses thought he could lead the children of Israel out, but God sent him to the back side of a desert to be a smelly sheep herder—an abomination in Egyptian eyes. God put His servant in that place of abomination to bring him down from his lofty position to a lowly sheep herder, likely losing his communication skills and seeing no one for the most part. Out of that circumstance of being a nobody, God then says, “Go to Pharaoh.” This fits Les’s teaching that God does not use the highly educated and polished; God can only use what the eyes of the world see as nothing.