Exodus 3
Moses was born during an oppressive time for the Hebrew people. There was a new king in Egypt, who did not know Joseph, and he was afraid that as the Hebrew people multiplied, they would rise up and fight against him. So the command went out that all the Hebrew baby boys were to be thrown into the river. As time passed, in the house of Amram and Jochebed, a beautiful baby boy was born, and they hid him for three months. By this time, he had grown so that his mother could hide him no longer, and she took an ark and placed him in the river by the water's edge. The king's daughter found him and took him as her own, allowing Moses' mother to nurse him until he had grown. Jochebed taught Moses the ways of God, and then he went to live in the palace and learned all the wisdom of the Egyptians. When Moses was 40 years old, he went out to visit his Hebrew people, and saw the burdens they were living under. He took matters into his own hands, and killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew. When the king heard about this, he was going to kill Moses, so Moses, afraid for his own life, left the area and went to Midian. In Midian, Moses grew in his love for his wife Zipporah and his sons, and learned how to take care of his father-in-law's flock of sheep.
Moses was 80 years old when an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a bush that was burning with fire, but it was not consumed. Moses stopped what he was doing, and turned to look at the bush and gazed into the fire. Inside that fire there were many colors, one of which was yellow, like the sun, and the sun is bright and gives us the ability to see and understand. Now God saw that Moses had stopped, and was ready to understand what He would say. God wanted Moses to know that He is alive and real. God wanted Moses to come near and take off his shoes—his own ideas, and he would help him to see and understand things he did not know. Moses was grown up and knew that God had given him direction to lead the Hebrew people out of Egypt, but he must first come to the fire and let God purify his understanding and his actions.
We, too, have to come the way of Moses. We have many ideas of what we think we should be about and how to do it. There is a beauty that glows when we come to God's fire, and let Him purge us of our own thoughts and ideas, and let Him fill us with His thoughts and ideas. We have seen here today, how Moses spent 80 years of his life wandering around, and it took God one day, in front of a burning bush, to grow him up to be able to go and lead his people out of Egypt into the promised land. Let us all come today to God, and pray for humility to stop at His burning bush, and to grow up in Jesus Christ Then, we will be able to go do exactly what God wants. This is Holy Ground! "Grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen." 1 Peter 3:18
~Debbie Frantz
