Are you looking for God in your life? Me too.
Sometimes I think he is hiding from me.
Maybe it’s just that I’m looking for Him in all the wrong places
Here’s a story about the day I found God in a “Burning Bush”…
“Wow”, my wife said, “Look at that!”
There it was in the middle of a field of brown fall weeds – a bush with red and orange and yellow and green leaves. We parked our car about a quarter of a mile away and walked into the field to take pictures.
It was a sunny fall day. The wind rustled the leaves left on the bushes and scattered the ones that had fallen to the ground. A flock of geese honked overhead.
We stood staring for a moment or two, overwhelmed by what we saw and heard, glad that we had decided to get out of the car. Then we started taking pictures.
Over the next few days we called that bush our “Burning Bush”.
With quick humility we added that of course it wasn’t really burning, and of course God wouldn’t really make himself known in a small bush in the middle of a field next to a railroad track, and of course He wouldn’t show himself to ordinary people like us.
But that’s not the biblical story…
God made himself known in a small thorn bush, to a shepherd in the middle of nowhere.
He made himself known because Moses bothered to notice the bush at all.
He made himself known because Moses walked closer to the bush and to God.
He made himself known because when he called Moses’ name, Moses heard Him.
Maybe that’s a formula for finding God:
- Stop and look. Right now. Right here.
- Move closer.
- Listen.
- Follow what you hear.
Exodus 3: 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 wilderness 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!”
6 thoughts on “Moses’ 4 Steps to Finding God…”
God has so many ways speaking to us,we need to walk in his line so that when he call’s us we will hear and when he speak we will hear him.
Absolutely! It’s so easy to be distracted by other things, isn’t it? Thanks for the comment.
Eyes on this world or on the Spirit of God? Do we teeter totter up and down, up and down, while God is never up nor down, right in the middle, watching us patiently in Mercy and truth, saying just come here with me in the center and rest, with me, Romans 8:28
Thank you Bob for your help in that walk of Faith, our object Christ unto Father
Thanks for your comments. As you say in your previous comment, we need to keep our eyes (and hearts) focused on God and not the things of this world.
Yes for the things in and of this world easily be set us, or can depends on: to me if I am a seeing man that is blind, I would then rather be a blind man that sees