keeping flocks, burning bushes

Exodus 3:1-3

“Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law…

he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness

and the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in the flame of a burning bush.”

Most of us deeply desire burning bushes

Few of us are willing to keep and lead well, someone else’s flock

Most of us want desperately for God to show up

Few of us will be faithful in obscurity until He does

Most of us want our own flock

Few of us treat someone else’s flock as our own

GOD INTERRUPTS FAITHFULNESS

Moses was getting after it as an employee of a “random” Midianite

Far from Egypt and Israel, with every reason to lay down and pout

He blooms where he is planted, faithful to what is in front of him

GOD INTERRUPTS FAITHFULNESS

Our tendency, to obsess over “God’s will”, while amid unfaithfulness,

Moses’ tendency, loyal submission, and the best of his leadership, with someone else’s flock, in apparent randomness and certain obscurity

GOD INTERRUPTS FAITHFULNESS

The burning bush did not appear in the midst of Moses’ self-care

The burning bush did not appear in the midst of Moses’ 5-year plan retreat

The burning bush did not appear to a sulking Moses

The burning bush did not appear to a passive Moses

The burning bush did not appear to a future-obsessed Moses

The burning bush did not appear to a self-obsessed Moses

The burning bush appeared to a faithful Moses

Obscurity, laboring to make someone else look great, busting it for someone else’s flock, being faithful without knowing the “why?” and “what does this lead to?”

all part of God’s core curriculum for Greatness, God doesn’t do electives

You and I deserve and demand to “know God’s will for our lives”, why?

entitlement?

we do not want to trust Him to secure our future?

God’s will for your life and mine? BE FAITHFUL WHERE WE ARE

Grindforth…faithfully

“The best leaders I know spent seasons of their life making someone else look great.”

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