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Sunday, April 8, 2018

#Curiosity?


It had been about 320 years that the offspring of Abraham were held in Egypt as slaves when Moses was born and through unusual circumstances was raised in Pharaoh's palace. His birth mother was given the first few years to nurse him and, because she believed in her father's God, Yahweh, she taught Moses about Him. When he was 40 years old he witnessed an injustice to one of his people and murdered the offender, but was discovered and had to run away to save himself from punishment. He ran to the wilderness to hide and kept sheep for another 40 years. One day, just strolling along in his flip-flops, he passed by an unusual sight. A bush was on fire and yet, not being burned up. He could have just glanced at it out of the corner of his eye while texting on his phone and not given it much thought, but he became curious and turned to look. The really interesting thing to me is what the text in Exodus 3:4 says about this. It specifically says that God waited to see what Moses would do and when He saw that Moses turned to look, then, He spoke to Moses.
God was testing him to see if he could see that God Himself was involved in this unusual circumstance. In the palace were magicians able to perform unusual events and he could have been cynical with the unusual, but because of what his mother had instilled in him, he could see God's involvement and was curious to find out more.
God may be trying to get your attention by some out of the ordinary circumstances in your life. He tells us in 1 John 4 to test the spirits to see if they are of Him. We can't just accept the unusual as of God because we may be fooled, but we can test them against the Scripture to see if they align up with the truth of God's word. God may be waiting for you to check out the unusual and if you do, He will reveal more of Himself to you. Just being curious about God and wanting to know more can be the beginning of so much more. Moses was honored by being made the leader of his people out of slavery to the edge of the promised land because he turned and looked.

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