Why did God make Moses a sheepherder in the wilderness for 40 years?

Les explains that God, by a sovereign act, got Moses where He could prepare him to be the kind of man He could use. Of all places, the wilderness was the last place we would have sent him: Moses became a sheepherder for forty years, with almost no contact with the public or people of stature. In his own eyes Moses was nothing, a nobody; in God’s eyes he was everything. Les says this is the requirement for service even today. That is why Paul refers to it in Corinthians. If you want to be a Sunday school teacher, a missionary, or anything in God’s service, you must first understand that in yourself you are nothing. You cannot bring this world’s education, talents, or inheritance; God cannot use any of that. Even Paul, educated at Gamaliel’s feet, had to understand that as a servant of God’s grace, especially to the Gentiles, he had to begin as a nobody. In 1 Corinthians 2 Paul says he came not with excellency of speech or wisdom, not as Apollos, but determined to know nothing except Jesus Christ and Him crucified; he was with them in weakness and fear.