Undeniable faith

It is very interesting to me while I read the stories in the Old Testament, because it seems like each and every one of them describe who we are as people. I have a feeling that God knew what he was writing and why he was writing it, but it is almost like a slap in the face sometimes when you read stories and you can relate to different people in the Bible.

For right now, I am reading about Moses. Moses is a fascinating story because it seems like Moses his whole life is wrestling within himself to get things right. He was born into a time of murder and slavery, he was sent away in a straw basket, then picked up by royalty, then got his own mom to nurse him. As Moses grew up though, he did not grow up in the Israelite home he was born in to, he was raised and lived in Pharaoh’s house. He was raised as royalty. He was raised as an Egyptian boy. When Moses was older,this life as an Egyptian comes to a crashing halt, not because he dies or anything, but we have this great scene in Moses’ life where he is wrestling with himself, he knows that he is an Israelite, he knows that the rest of his people are in slavery in Egypt, he knows that he can walk around and tell the slave drivers what to do. So as he is out walking one day, he see’s a slave driver beating one of his own kindred. Moses snaps and kills him, buries him in the sand and leaves. Hoping that no one would notice, the following day some of his own kindred were fighting each other and he tried to stop them, but they threatened him in a sense saying “what? you going to kill us and bury us in the sand too?” Moses was petrified, so he ran. He took off and ran away to Midian.

So while he is in Midian, he get’s married, has a great father in law, works hard, makes a living for himself, life seems to be going ok.

But then God has to come in and mess it up for him.

It is interesting to me though that I feel like that is what we do. We get set in our lives, we find a wife or a husband, we have kids, we have a good job, we have money, we have a house, life is going well. It is safe, it is good, we go to church, we give to the church, raising our kids well. Life is just going well.

But then all of a sudden, something comes up that gives us that sick feeling in our stomachs. That feeling of “great, now what are we going to do?” It could come in different ways, maybe it is a move, maybe it is a new job, maybe you need to give something up. But for some reason, you just dont know why you have this weird feeling in your stomach.

I wonder if that is how Moses felt when he approached the burning bush? I wonder if he for some reason had this strange feeling in his stomach that whatever is about to happen is going to mess up my life?

Moses approaches this burning bush and has a conversation with God. God himself, the God of the Universe, Moses has a conversation with him through a bush. What is even more interesting to me is that throughout this conversation, we see Moses do what I think a lot of us also do.

5 Times. Excuse after excuse. Reason after reason. 5 times Moses does his best to get away from God was asking him to do. Don’t we do that? Maybe it is not even 5 times, maybe it is a lot more than that.

Moses in the end, still hesitant, agrees and follows God’s request. However, we still see that Moses needs that one person to go with him and help him.

Could you imagine if we all had undeniable faith and trust in God? So that when he comes calling into our lives, we just say yes. We just go wherever HE calls us to go?

Would your life look different?