What's This I See?

Moses was just going along, happily doing his job, when he saw something out of the corner of his eye.  A bush was burning.  Not such a spetactular sight ... until he noticed that the bush was not being consumed by the fire.  He was interested enough in this strange sight to go and investigate.  Little did he know what he was getting himself into!

It turns out that the burning bush wasn't really important; it was merely God's way of getting Moses' attention.  God didn't jump out in front of Moses on the road to get his attention.  God didn't speak in a loud voice from an angry-looking cloud.  Moses had to be paying atention to what was going on around him, or he would have missed this opportunity to encounter God.

God had a job for Moses to do that had nothing to do with tending his father-in-law's flocks.  God wanted Moses to lead the Israelites out of their Egyptian bondage.  This was a huge and massively important job!  Moses didn't think he was up to it, but God would hear none of that nonsense!  "I will be with you!"

In what kind of small, unspectacular ways, is God trying to get our attention?  The thing God uses to get our attention isn't, in itself, what is important.  What is important is that we are paying enough attention to what is going on around us to notice it.  It may seem very insignificant at first ... until we take a closer look.  Then, when we take that closer look, we might discover that the thing itself isn't important at all.  It was merely God's way of getting our attention and putting us in the place where we could hear him.

Are you paying attention?  When you see something slightly out of the ordinary, do you investigate it?  When God does finally, in some way, get your attention, do stand there as if on holy ground and listen?  If you hear, do you complain that you are not up to the task God sets before you?  When you hear God say, "I will be with you!" do you believe him?  If you believe him, do you do what he calls you to do?

You must answer these questions for yourself; no one else can answer for you.

Be blessed.
Pastor Mark