by Don Emmitte |
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One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the
priest of Midian, and he went deep into the wilderness near Sinai, the
mountain of God. Suddenly, the angel of the LORD appeared to him as a
blazing fire in a bush. Moses was amazed because the bush was engulfed in
flames, but it didn't burn up. "Amazing!" Moses said to himself.
"Why isn't that bush burning up? I must go over to see this."
When the LORD saw that he had caught Moses' attention, God called to him
from the bush, "Moses! Moses!" "Here I am!" Moses
replied. (Exodus 3:1-4 NLV). I never knew that there was a difference in the reception you could get from using a different type of cable on your TV until recently. When my friend, Gary Chandler, hooked up my TV recently and told me I ought to use “S-Video” cables, I dutifully bought them and he installed them. What a difference in quality it made! He explained the reason for it, though I must confess that most of the explanation was lost on me. What I do know is that it is by far better. In fact, while watching a program with heavy special effects last night, I was taken by the effects I had to wait until the credits rolled by just to see who did them. Now in the future I can get other movies by the same special effects wizards and be just as pleased with the results! To my knowledge this is the first time I wanted to know who did them! Sounds silly doesn’t it? I also began to think how often we get caught up in the “special effects” of our lives rather than the one who did them. One of my favorite poems is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Earth's
crammed with heaven, God used a bush to get the attention of Moses in our reading this morning. Moses was paying attention and said, "I must see." He was looking for the cause of this "special effect". When he looked for the cause, it was then that God spoke to him, telling him to remove his sandals, "For the place you are standing is holy ground." God identified Himself to Moses then and said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." The question is, will we look only at the "special effects" or will we look to Him, the Creator of the special effects. Will we enter in, take off our shoes, and stand on holy ground or will we choose to sit around it plucking blackberries. I believe, like Moses, God wants us to "turn aside now and see," to look for Him and not just look for another "special effect" to sit around while we obliviously nibble our popcorn. The next time you see "special effects", remember to look for the Creator. Here’s a little more of that poem: "The
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