Going It Alone

Do you know what God did? He accommodated Moses’ desire. But the compromise was less than the best; brother Aaron proved to be an albatross around his neck. It was Aaron who got impatient while Moses was on the mountain.

And the Answer Is . . .

“But Lord,” Moses was saying, “I can’t be Your spokesman in this situation. Why, I wouldn’t have any answers when those guys started firing questions at me.” Before we consider the Lord’s response, stop and think about that lame excuse for a moment.

Hard of Hearing

Moses had been resistant for forty years, telling himself all that time that his was a lost cause. Now, when God came with a direct, simple call, the old shepherd couldn’t handle it.

Flammable Bushes

What was God’s larger message to Moses in that moment? Release your imagination for a few moments. It might have included some thoughts such as these: “Moses, forty years ago you were a fine looking bush, impressed with all your own foliage.”

I’m Here

I think one of the most important words in this verse is the very first one. When. The Hebrew word means “at the same time.” That goes back to verse 3, where Moses said, “I must turn aside.”

An Ordinary Day

This was the day when God decided to break a forty-year silence. Pause and let that sink in! Through four decades in Midian, we have no record of God’s speaking to Moses. Not even once.

A Major in Discomfort

Notice carefully how the process took place through those years of desert learning, because it is the same with you and me. God must break through several hard, exterior barriers in our lives before He can renovate our souls.

A Major in Obscurity

The desert is a place of obscurity. Moses had to cope with being a nobody. All his adolescent and adult life, he had been a big-time somebody. The spotlight followed his every move.

Through It All

You’d better believe that Moses, though tucked away in a corner of that wasteland, heard the latest news from the travelers in caravans making their way up from Egypt through the Midian desert.

Living in Obscurity

Pay close attention to that last sentence. “Moses was willing to dwell with the man.” How good that is. Here is a man he had never met; an obscure desert priest and shepherd, who had spent a lifetime raising sheep.

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