Exiting Egypt Chapter 3 P2

Exiting Egypt Chapter 3 P2

A Burning Bush Brings Redemption

Exodus 3:1-10

By Dennis Lee

B. God has to Get Our Attention

So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed (Ex. 3:2b NKJV)

God has to get our attention before He can present Himself to us. Here Moses is walking along an old familiar path. But as he glances up he sees a strange sight on the mountain. A bush was burning and it wasn’t consumed. He watched what he thought was a simple brush fire, but it didn’t burn up, and so God got Moses’ attention. Note what it goes on to say,

Then Moses said, "I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn (Ex. 3:3 NKJV)

God had gotten Moses attention, and now he could present Himself and talk with Moses.

So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am (Ex. 3:4 NKJV)

God needs to get our attention so that He can talk to us. Hopefully this is something we open ourselves up to on a daily basis in our time of prayer and in God’s word. Now the one thing that I have learned is that when God wants your attention, He’ll get your attention. He got Moses’ attention. A burning bush that doesn’t burn up – that’s a show stopper. But God also does so through not only good fortune or tragedy, but He also uses every day things that come at us seemingly out of nowhere.

A call on the phone from someone you haven’t heard from in a long time. But it can also be in a song that we hear on the radio or over our I-pods. A lyric you’ve heard a hundred times before but now it opens up something new and wonderful. What God does is that He presents Himself in the good time and in the bad times of life, but also in just ordinary life.

And to do it, He in some way, shape, or form gets our attention.

But let’s not miss the thought that comes out of this reality, and that is that many people today just aren’t interested enough to stop and seek the meaning behind what is going on in their lives. Many people ignore God and the things of God because they are just too busy and too wrapped up in their own lives to worry about anything but themselves.

Most people aren’t like Moses, they’re not willing to stop and seek the spiritual meaning behind life’s fortunes and tragedies. But if they truly will seek God and the meaning and purpose He has for their lives, then they will hear Him speak, much like Moses heard God speak.

Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near (Isa. 55:6 NKJV)

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul (Deut. 4:29 NKJV)

God isn’t far, in fact He is near to each one of us, if we would just seek Him and call, then He will answer and deliver us from the sin that has us so bound.