God Is Able Frustrated by feelings of uncertainty, I cried out to God: What do you want me to do? I’m trying to be useful, but I’m not sure I’m using my time and talents in the best way! Though I volunteer at church and in my community, I thought perhaps I was missing something. How do I know if I’m on the right track? How can I be sure I won’t miss God’s call? In the midst of my prayer, an image of a burning bush came into my mind. I remembered how God came to Moses while Moses was tending sheep in the wilderness. Though Moses was far away from his homeland, God found him, used a flaming bush to get his attention, and then told him exactly what to do. God met Moses right where he was and spoke in words that he could understand. I felt relief as I realized that God knows where I am too. If there is something else I should be doing, God is powerful enough to let me know. I don’t need to fear I’ll miss it, but I can rest in the truth that God knows how to reach me — perhaps through a phone call from a friend, an announcement, a news story, or another burning bush! Whatever method God chooses, I can trust that God is able to communicate clearly to me the next step on my journey. Exodus 3:1-10 3:1 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 3:2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. 3:3 Then Moses said, I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up. 3:4 When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, Moses, Moses! And he said, Here I am. 3:5 Then he said, Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. 3:6 He said further, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. 3:7 Then the LORD said, I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings, 3:8 and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 3:9 The cry of the Israelites has now come to me; I have also seen how the Egyptians oppress them. 3:10 So come, I will send you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.
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