STOP...and see His Glory!

Exodus 3:3-4

3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.4 And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

Moses had to turn aside from his agenda to see the Glory of God. Most are familiar with the story of Moses. He was rescued by Pharaoh's daughter after her father had given a decree that all the Hebrew male babies were to be killed. Moses's mother sent him down the Nile in a basket believing God. He was rescued and raised in the palace. Moses retired to Midian after slaying and Egyptian that he saw smiting a Hebrew. He took a wife in Midian and began to tend his father-in-law's sheep.

I'm only sure Moses thought that tending sheep and building a family in Midian was his new life. How many of us know that when God has a plan and purpose for our lives He will totally obliterate your plans and place of contentment. To see the Glory of God we must turn from our will. We must completely STOP what we want to do and give over fully to God. Moses had to take his eyes off the sheep long enough to see the bush. He could have dimissed it as just a bush that had caught fire and would burn out soon. When he turn away from his daily routine and saw that the bush was not being consumed by the fire....then God spoke. God didn't speak until He saw that Moses had turned his "full attention" to the bush. God is not going to push you down to make you see His Glory.

Isaiah 42:20

20 Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

Most of the time we are so caught up in our home, work, and church routines that we are only catching glimpses of God's Glory. We are not really taking the time to observe what God is doing in our lives or in the world around us. Most of us are definitely to busy to hear Him. We are God's ambassadors on earth but when are we going to stop long enough to get the instructions for the work He has for us to do. What if Moses had not stopped and turned aside to see and hear from God? True, God could have used someone else to deliver the Children of Israel but he ordained the task for Moses. Let us be so observant and listen so attentively that we don't miss the moment God has ordained for us.