Yet God had a plan and a purpose. He had led Moses to a place where he could work on taking Egypt out of Moses: his learning, his mindset, his ways. God was stripping him down to his primal identity. In the commonplace of his daily existence, in the ordinariness of life, in the silence of the desert, Moses shed his pride, his reactive anger, and his white-knight syndrome. He became the servant God needed to lead His people out of bondage.