This past weekend my daughters were reading from Exodus while driving home in the van from a season at camp. As they read the familiar story of the Exodus and Moses I "heard" it in a fresh way... Thank you Lord that Your Word has power in and of itself and that in its reading there is power.
No time for a deep theological breakdown, just passages that have had me meditating....
Exodus 3: 1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” 4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”
Meditation #1 - it was when Moses when to look at what God was doing right before his eyes that God spoke to Him. Had Moses not been looking, he wouldn't have heard God speaking.
Exodus 3:11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” 12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” 13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
Meditation #2 - As God asked Moses to serve Him, Moses said, "who am I". God's response was "I AM, and I'll be with you". It doesn't matter who we are, or aren't, if the I AM is with us.
Exodus 4:1 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you’?” 2 Then the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied. 3 The LORD said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 4 Then the LORD said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. 5 “This,” said the LORD, “is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”
Meditation #3- Moses asked for a sign, and when God gave him a sign, Moses' first response was to run - even from a sign that God was with him. Moses began to run from the very thing that would allow God to empower him because it looked scary.
Response-
1. Be looking into what God is already doing right in front of you, then be ready to hear from God.
2. Don't worry about who you are if you have God Himself with you.
3. Don't run from the signs God is giving you right now, they are meant to empower and affirm you.
Consider all of these while you share the gospel with someone today!
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Live holy, preach Jesus!
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