Scripture

So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Exodus 3:3-5

Observation
Moses was a burned out man and so he was attracted to a fire that never went out. He was chasing sheep in the desert because he had flopped in the halls of power. He was Richard Nixon in exile. No one wanted to know him or about him. But God still did.

Throughout the Bible, God called many young men in their youth to follow him. But it is encouraging to see, that at the beginning go human history he started with old men. Noah, Abraham and Moses were three grumpy old men until God showed up. That gives hope for a renewal of our call when we fear that we have used up all of our youth.

Remember well how God called you and what he said to you in the first days, for that will form the rest of your life. The burning bush was a cameo that was to be repeated in Moses’ life. Not only did God appear in a desert with unending burning, he would invite Moses to pull off his shoes as if he were sitting on rugs in his own home. That would become a pattern in days to come. In unlikely places God would show up and Moses would need to learn to become comfortable with God in uncomfortable places. His life mission would be wrapped up in going a little further out into the presence of God than other people would go and taking them with him.

Application
There is a fresh call for me today that is built on what God has already said to me. Words and experiences that are now 30 years old are still alive and active in me. I need to go back to those first words and build my life on them.

Prayer
Father, I have heard your call, help me to live it out. Amen.