Who's the boss?

How do we create a hero? Everybody has their own role model, or hero, or simply a world wide superman. For example we constantly relate our hero to the person we are closest to, or know the most, usually parents which become our idols. We probably admire famous characters because their life is exposed to the entire world, we think we know them and imitate them. So if our life would be displayed it would be there for anyone to take as their own guide, what I’m saying is that anybody can be a hero. How would you then identify a hero? Your biggest admiration, the person you can look up to, a future prospect and an influence for any decision. When you admire you give power to that one person, but is this power always granted?

The power taken by God is always granted, our faith equals his power. But the misuse of power is the main issue of a true hero. We can identify this in the constant encounters of power versus power, I mean, between God and Pharaoh. This situation unleashed one of the first disagreements between a nation and its leader, between Hebrews and the Pharaoh. Actually, Hebrew were repressed by the power of his ruler, they served him, for his own benefit. Corruption? I think so, it’s just a way to manipulate his control over what is already done. The pharaoh was seeking what was right for him, not what was right for his nation (which is not what he was supposed to do). This is the pure example of power. Exactly what the image of God reflects. Then this constant divergence shows how humans want more than what god destined them to have, yes…ambition, which in the first place is the cause of corruption.

Moses is the first true hero expressed in the bible. He is the savior of the Israelites in their constant conflicts with the Pharaoh and God. We can say that Moses is God’s representative to the people, he interferes to help his nation against the oppression of the Pharaoh while God intervenes. Then the relationship ends up being: God recurrently argues with Moses, while Moses helps the people who are limited by the Pharaoh. But is commitment the key to this relationship?