Monday Thought – July 6, 2015

Good Morning Friends,

After killing the Egyptian slave driver, Moses fled Egypt to protect his own life. He wound up in the desert taking care of his father-in-law’s sheep for forty years. It seemed like God had forgotten Moses and His people.

“The angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, ‘I will go over and see this strange sight -- why the bush does not burn up.’ … God called to him from within the bush, ‘Moses! Moses!’ And Moses said, ‘Here I am.’ … The LORD said, ‘I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey …. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.’”  (Exodus 3:1-10)

God had been watching over His people and waiting for them to be ready for Him to deliver them. When the people of Israel cried out in desperation God moved to rescue them. God had a plan to rescue them and He was just waiting for the right time to unveil it.

When God moved to help His people, He moved through Moses. God could have helped His people without using Moses or any other man, but God’s plan almost always involves working through those who know Him and love Him.

God sees the pain and suffering of His people. He is not blind or deaf to our situation. His rescue may not come on our time table, but God is not absent, unknowing, or uncaring! God responds to the cries of His people.

God will move miraculously to come to the aid of His people. God’s rescue started with a small miracle, a bush that was on fire but did not burn and a voice that came from heaven. Those were just the first and the smallest of the miracles that God stood ready to perform to help His people.

His, by Grace,

Steve