Persons: Moses
Theme/Event: God’s Leadership
Symbol: Burning Bush
Exodus 2:1-4:20
Joseph’s family lived in Egypt for many years. God’s promise of Abraham’s descendants becoming too numerous to count was becoming true. God’s people were growing strong and there were many people in the family now. Things had become hard for the Israelites (the name of God’s chosen people) in Egypt. The new kings of Egypt didn’t remember Joseph and they were worried because the Israelites were becoming stronger and there were so many of them. The Egyptians had been mistreating the Israelites for many years and the Israelites had been waiting for God to save them. God had a big plan to deliver them and he was going to use one of Jesus' ancestors whose name was Moses.
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 back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. 3 Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.”4 So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.” 6 Moreover 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 upon God. 7 And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
God always hears us when we are sad. God always has a plan to deliver his people, but it always happens in His timing. Sometimes, we have to wait a long time, but God will use that waiting to prepare us for His purposes in our lives. God had a big job for Moses to do. God was training Moses to be the leader of His people. God showed Himself to Moses in the burning bush and told Moses that He wanted Moses to deliver His people from Egypt. This seemed like too big of a job to Moses, but God will always help you to do the job He has planned for you.
Questions:
Did God fulfill his promise to Abraham?
Who was God going to use to lead His people out of Egypt?
What has God asked you to do?
Prayer: Dear God, help me to fulfill your plans for my life. Thank you for preparing me now for the plans you have for later.
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