How long was Moses in the desert before the burning bush?

40 years We continue our study of the life of the man Moses with a unique meeting between God and Moses in the barren desert of Midian. Moses had spent 40 years taking care of his father-in-law Jethro's sheep when one day God spoke to Moses from a miraculous bush that was burning without being consumed.

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Rev. Tim McConnell

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We continue our study of the life of the man Moses with a unique meeting between God and Moses in the barren desert of Midian. Moses had spent 40 years taking care of his father-in-law Jethro’s sheep when one day God spoke to Moses from a miraculous bush that was burning without being consumed. We find in Exodus 3 and 4 that the meeting was filled with Moses’ questions and excuses for not obeying the call to be God’s man to return to carry out God’s purpose of deliverance. So, in our readings for this week, we see that there is a question and answer session between Moses and God. God had already told Moses that he was the man for the job of delivering the Hebrew people from Egypt. But we see Moses immediately coming up with four questions that express his unwillingness and self-perceived inadequacies to answer the call. Each question and objection that Moses had about going back to Egypt expressed his fear of not being accepted by his own people. He was afraid of rejection. To each of Moses’s questions God had an answer, as it is also true that to each of our questions God always has an answer. • Question one from verse 11: “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” Moses was looking at himself through his own eyes. He was not seeing the same Moses God was seeing. Moses looked around at his resources and thought, “All I have are my clothes, my family, a tent and a few sheep. How can I do what God is asking? Who am I that I should go and do this great thing?” He wasn’t thinking about the help he was going to get from the God of the universe, but God reminded him. God said, “I will certainly be with you. This burning bush is a sign unto you. Also, Moses, one day you and your people will worship right here on this mountain.” The mountain that they were on was Mount Sinai, the holy ground of the Ten Commandments. When facing a seemingly impossible task, do we sometimes look no further than our own resources? Do we forget that the one who calls us will also go with us? God sees who we are and what we are and at the same time sees what and who we can become. • Question two from verse 13: “When I come to the children of Israel what will I say to them when they ask me whose name do I come in? When they ask what is His name?” Now, I think Moses knew who God was, but he was afraid that he would not be able to explain God to the people in a way that they would understand and obey. He was afraid that the people had forgotten God, who he was and what he could do for them.

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Some had forgotten God, even as today. Many today have no idea of the great doctrines of the Bible, no idea of the basic foundations of the church and the invitation to live a holy life. But even as God goes before his work and his Spirit places conviction and understanding in people’s hearts, softening them before even one word of witnessing is ever spoken, we also have a part. Our part, just as with Moses, is to guide sinners into the way of salvation, to teach believers the way of holiness and to live lives that are examples of Christ. Our mandate as disciples of Christ is to free the prisoners, give sight to the blind and feed spiritual food to the hungry. So Moses asks his question and God gives Moses his answer starting in verse 14. God explains very clearly that Moses is to tell the people that he is, was and will ever be, with no beginning and no end: “I AM the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I AM the one who made the covenant to Abraham to give them a land flowing with milk and honey. I AM the one who will bring them out of slavery and defeat all their enemies. I AM the God of the living. Tell them that Moses!” That ancient message given to Moses to tell his people is the same message for us today: “I am the God who will deliver you from the slavery of sin and into a holy life, defeating your enemies along the way. I am the one who loved you while you were still in sin, the one who cares so much about you, who hurts when you hurt. I am the one who wants you to spend eternity with me.” That’s the message God wants us to give to the lost, the ones in sin that no one wants, the dying. The message from the one who is the same yesterday, today and forever never changes. So we today can count on our God who lives within us by the power of his Holy Spirit. This is the opinion of the Rev. Tim McConnell, assistant pastor of Long’s Chapel United Methodist Church in Lake Junaluska. Contact him at 828-456-3993 or pastortimmc.blogspot.com.

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