Sunday afternoon I was driving down the road and noticed a bush on the side of the road was smoking. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, so I turned around and went back to get another look. When I pull in to the parking lot of where this bush was located, I could see it was on fire, along with the mulch around it. Long story short, another vehicle seen it, pulled in behind me and with water bottles from our cars, we extinguished the flames.
We aren’t exactly sure what started it, but I kept thinking to myself…I got to experience a burning bush experience like Moses! Now, I try not to look at everything I experience as “spiritual” or with some kind of underlying message from God behind it, but I do believe that the steps of a good man/woman are ordered.
So, yesterday morning I decided to read the account of the burning bush in Exodus and also when Luke mentioned it in Acts 7.
I love the words, “I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” The Lord also said, “I have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt, I have heard their groaning and have come down to set them free. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.”
We know that after this, Moses went and led the Israelites out of Egypt, performed wonders and signs in Egypt, at the Red Sea and for forty years in the wilderness.
To hear Moses speak of himself, he would say that he was slow of speak and tongue, but Stephen said he was “powerful in speech in action”.
Several things came to mind as I was reading, but one thing I noticed is that sometimes we don’t give God enough credit when He calls us to do something. We find excuses within ourselves when He just wants us to be willing and trust Him. We aren’t ever qualified, but when we are called, we become equipped by the Lord to do good works!
Sometimes what we see as our greatest weakness, others will see as a strength, because God takes power, strength and action when we lay our inability, weakness and faith at His feet.
Don’t ever discount Who God says He is and what He can do!
What has the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob called you to do? It may be not come from a burning bush, but as a child of God, you have fire (The Holy Spirit) in your bones to overcome this world!
I encourage you to read the accounts of the burning bush and then be encouraged to recognize when God is speaking to you about Who He is…He is I Am…with eternal power and unchangeable character. If He did for Moses and the great heroes of faith we see in Hebrews, He will do it for you.
Just be willing to walk away from the “burning bush” changed.
