Exodus 3:1-10
1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.
3 So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight--why the bush does not burn up."
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am."
5 "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."
6 Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
7 The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.
8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt."

This was not an ordinary day for Moses. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness which happened to be the mountain of God. He was wonder stuck by the scene where a bush was on fire but it did not burn up. It was indeed a strange sight for him. He could never believe that it was God who was in the bush and that God was waiting for him. God wanted to assign him with an important yet difficult task - to deliver his people from Egypt. What a great call? A call to change his life and career. From tending sheep to leading people to the ‘promised land’. It is just like Jesus called his disciples and said ‘I will make you fishers of men’. God has called each one of us and given us the assignment to deliver his people from the bondage of sin.

God said ‘I am concerned about their suffering’. ‘And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me’. God is concerned about all the people in this world and he wants to save each one of them. He doesn’t want anyone to perish. And he has assigned the task to us. But, are we doing it sincerely? Moses was not confident about his mission. He asked God ‘Who am I’ and God said ‘I will be with you’. Today, we may be having the same thought ‘Am I capable of doing it’ ‘Do I have the qualification, knowledge, strength, spirituality, etc.‘ God doesn’t need all these things to use you. The only thing he wants in you is ‘humility’. God asked Moses to take off his sandals which is an act of showing humility and respect. Today God is asking us to remove the sandals of ‘pride’, ‘self righteousness’, ‘ego’, ‘selfishness’, etc. so that he can make use of us.

When I look into my life, I can see that whenever I tried to do things with my strength and knowledge I could never succeed. But whenever I felt ‘I am week’ and ‘I can’t do anything’ , that is the time God used me in an incredible way. So humble yourself before God and he will use you to accomplish his task.

Prayer idea

Think about all the ‘calls’ you have in your life, name them, and see how you fare in all that. (like a father, husband, wife... etc etc)