Moses, the Burning Bush – No S’mores! (Exodus 3)

Exodus 3:1-6

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro … and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. The bush was on fire, but it did not burn up. …

God called to him from the bush, “Moses!” Moses said, “Here I am.”

“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for where you stand is holy ground.”

Burning Bush Moments… wasted

I have never heard the voice of God from a burning bush like Moses, or heard the voice of Jesus call my name from a blinding light like the Apostle Paul, but I believe God’s Spirit still speaks and leads us.

In big but often small ways, His Spirit prompts our hearts what to say and do. But if I ignore His Spirit or am afraid to follow His leading… well, it would be in my cartoon brain like Moses seeing the burning bush and deciding to make S’mores rather than listen to the voice of God.

Ok, maybe not a great one-to-one analogy, but my point is how many times do we hold back in our words and/or actions when we feel God’s leading? We don’t like pain or rejection, and so our testimony becomes muted.

I am not judging anyone who reads this, as the above analogy fits my life too well. I pray going forward to commit to serving God as he leads. I pray the same for you. I believe the church (all of God’s people) in America as a whole lives out a muted testimony. We so often are afraid of offending our secular culture, so we figuratively ‘make s’mores’ when the Holy Spirit tells us to stand strong. We allow ourselves to be put into a nice, safe box filled with bubble wrap and popcorn to insulate us, rather than testifying to the Gospel message.

Please share your COMMENTS below: What do you, and what does the church (God’s people) do when the Spirit leads? Do we rush the gates of Hell, or make S’mores?

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