A Burning Question

This week I was reading the story about Moses, the burning bush, the staff that God turned into a snake, then a staff again. It's fun to read from The Message Remix because I'm catching things this time around that I didn't catch in the story of Moses before.

And it struck me that here was God commanding Moses to go into Egypt and get the Israelites together and free them from the enslavement they've been enduring for years.

*It was a good place for them to be at one time, back when Joseph was hanging out with the Egyptian elite, but then it turned bad. Joseph was a son of Jacob (later named Israel by God), and he brought his family into Egypt to shelter them from the famine that was happening.

But...years later and apparently many many many little Israelites later, they were taxing the land and posed a bit of a security threat. So they were treated as slaves and it wasn't a good time. And they were pretty much needing to get out of there, so God sent their relative, Moses to come back and lead them out.

But I read that initial conversation there on the road and I'm thinking this: If I'm bee bopping along down a path and see a bush lit up in flames but not burning and God speaks to ME, tells me to do something, would I beg Him to send someone else like Moses did? I don't know. And part of Moses' reticence was that he stammered and stuttered when he talked.

Still....God picked Moses. God told Moses he was the one, that He would be there with him, that He would send Moses' brother Aaron to help him. I think it appealed to me because of this: Of course He picked Moses! He didn't see him as incapable and incompetent like Moses saw himself. He saw farther into him than Moses saw into himself. Don't we all have a little bit of Moses in us--uncertainty, lack of confidence, and not seeing beyond the speed bumps in the road? I'm thinking if I hear God's call, I'm going to jump right on in. He knows things about me I don't.

I'm just beginning Miracle Word and I'm already blessed by the stories I'm reading. I honestly believe this is going to be a journey I'll never forget. And I still have some of the reader guides, let me know if you want one, I'll get it in the mail asap.