Sometimes it take a lot to get out attention. We get used to all the normal sounds, sights, and even distractions. Many times I’ve witnessed—and it’s even happened to me—when a little child would tug at a parent a continually say “mommy” or “daddy.” Of course, that parent goes on about their business without responding to the child.Then there are times when something interrupts our thought and we pay attention or look to see what happened. Someone honks their horn, so we look around.God wanted to talk to Moses, but first He had to get his attention. What a strange, unusual sight—a burning bush that wasn’t consumed. A burning bush would be alarming enough, but to think that it just didn’t burn up! Now that got Moses’ attention (Exod. 3:1-3).When he approached this wonder, God spoke to him. I don’t know how much Moses had thought about his people back in Egypt over those forty years. I imagine it had crossed his mind, but now after forty years he was settled into a comfortable routine. He worked tending sheep, he had a wife and two sons and extended family, so life was in a nice routine.Now God came to him and tells Moses, “I have a job for you.” Moses was to go back to Egypt and lead them out of Egypt to the promised land. Now Moses made excuses for not going to do God’s will. His first excuse was that “I’m just a nobody” (Ex. 3:11). Moses claimed that he was not an important person, he was just a simple sheepherder. We might make the same objection saying I’m just an average person, I’m not exceptional, I have no special ability to lead.God didn’t respond by saying, “I’ll make you extraordinary.” He didn’t promise that he would make him handsome, or give him the body of an athlete, or make him charismatic—no, God simply said, “I’ll be with you” (Ex. 3:12). God frequently calls average people to do His will. What matters is not that the person is extraordinary, but that he or she believes that an extraordinary God is with them. He was not asking Moses, or us, to do His will alone or by our human effort. God says, I’ll be with you.”Then Moses objected that he didn’t know what to say, to which God replied that He had a simple message (Ex. 3:15). How often ...
