Why did God choose Moses as the one to whom He described the creation and made known His divine mysteries?
Q217 · The Wondrous Creator, the Guardian of the World
Moses enjoyed fellowship and affinity with God, which fitted him to see God face to face and learn His mysteries.
Moses disdained the royal palace and went down among the people to share in their humiliation. Paul the apostle says, “By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward” (Heb. 11:24–26). Thus, the believer cannot know the mysteries of God without sharing in the lives of those who are suffering, deprived, and those who have no one to ask about them.
His sojourn in the wilderness for forty years afforded him an opportunity to contemplate the creation and come to know its Creator.
Moses did not submit to weakness, for at the age of eighty he saw God in the burning bush; Him whom no one had ever seen.
It was said of him, “And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds” (Acts 7:22). Moses did not disdain the wisdom of the Egyptians (and so should we also benefit from all that is around us).
Moses discovered that God created the world out of nothing and that matter is not coeternal with God. God is Beauty, and capable of bestowing beauty upon us, so that everything in us becomes “very good.”
He also discovered that the Holy Trinity works in the creation: the Father spoke; through the Son creation took place; and the Holy Spirit hovered over the face of the water to establish a marvelous world.