Walk and Talk with the Lord #7

 

Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” 4 When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6 And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. (Exodus 3)

This was obviously not a typical walk and talk with the Lord, but sometimes God really needs to get our attention. Like Moses, God may have called you to something special, but you ran away - far away - to where you think God cannot see, or you cannot hear, what He has to say. But He interrupts your day; He has something to say that you need to hear. It's life-changing.  More than any other personality in the Old Testament, we find a lot of times Moses walked and talked with God. Some were very dramatic, like this. Others were very frustrating, hard, and even humiliating. But all were necessary conversations. Stop trying to run and hide, not listening, not talking with God. Take a walk with Him and really listen - especially if you think life has become a meaningless, purposeless rut. That is about to change.