Moses and identity

I've been reading a book for a class today and came across a passage that I just have to share. The author, Jacobsen, is talking about the scene in the book of Exodus where God presents himself to Moses in the form of a bush that's on fire.

God:

The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them. So come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.

Moses:

Who am I that I should to to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?

This question is not simply a self-deprecating ploy used by Moses to evade God's summons. Here is the son of a Hebrew slave who grew up in the courts of Pharaoh as a prince and is now a fugitive murderer tending sheep in a foreign land. Who indeed is Moses? Slave or prince? Hebrew or Midianite? Murderer or shepherd? Fugitive or liberator? Unless Moses discovers who he really is... he is of little use to the freedom struggle of the Hebrew slaves. God challenges Moses to see himself the way that God sees him: the bold liberator of the Hebrew people.

Who indeed, are we?

Jacobsen, Doing Justice