The Call Of Moses

God does not have to warn us that He is showing up because we are told to be expecting and anticipating God to show up in our lives. God wants to use us, wants to show up in our routine world and make it extra-ordinary just by Him showing up.

II. God uses our weakness and His strength to accomplish much

Moses wasn’t perfect. God does not use perfect people. God did not die for perfect people. God makes no apologies that He is looking for broken people that will admit their weaknesses and will allow God to do something in their lives.

I believe a lot of Christians do not hear from God because they are too busy. They do not see the burning bushes that God puts in front of them. Moses life did not change until he stopped what he was doing (normal stuff) and noticed that a bush was on fire but was not burning (not normal) the reason that God called Moses by name twice was not selective hearing as some women might think but was a way of showing that he loved and cared for Moses. A runaway rebellious man was the very man that God wanted to talk to that day about how his life could be changed in an instant. He comes over and God let him know who is addressing him, that it was a holy place and he should take off his shoes, and even though he had failed before, the God of mercy was ready to speak to him if he was willing. He would take all of Moses weaknesses and use them for good if he would allow God to give him His strength and abilities to accomplish the tasks at hand.

He calls us in our weaknesses

III. God uses Burning Bushes to get our attention.

God used the burning bush to get Moses attention. He had to stop what he was doing and go over and see and hear what God was doing and saying. Today, we live in a society where everybody is talking and nobody is listening. I read a statement by one of our own college age kids and he said that we need to come to the table and be listening to each other, even those that we disagree with so that each one is heard and we can come to an agreement of the change that is needed. That was profound.

I think God would tell us sometimes to just shut up! Stop talking! Come into my presence and just listen!

Holy ground is holy ground, separate ground where God is and where He tells us what we need to hear and gives us our marching orders as believers to build kingdom works.

Closing,

The one thing that I am 100% sure of is you are unqualified to do kingdom work in your own strength and talents. You have great skills and gifts that need to be used, but you are not God. You need His strength to accomplish God things. If you can do it in your own strength, it is not a God thing.

What does God have to do to get your attention? Has He sent you some burning bushes and you have just dismissed them?

Are you going to let your past keep you from receiving what the Lord has for you now?

In his book, One minute after you die, Erwin Lutzer says;

“One minute after you slip behind the parted curtain, you will either be enjoying a personal welcome from Christ or catching a first glimpse of gloom as you have never known it. Either way, your future will be irrevocably fixed and eternally unchangeable.”