What had Moses been doing for 40 years before he confronted Pharaoh?
Moses had spent forty years on the backside of the desert herding sheep. That long isolation gave him almost no contact with public or populated areas, leaving him insecure when God commissioned him to confront Pharaoh and bring Israel out of bondage.
Les teaches that Moses had been 40 years on the backside of the desert herding sheep. During that time he had almost no contact with public or populated areas, so he had become insecure. Although God commissioned him to confront Pharaoh to bring Israel out of bondage, Moses still claimed he could not do it; the first difficulty was overcoming his own timidity.