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*Thomas** s.
Myers*
*WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GOD CALLS YOU INTO SERVICE?*
*Exodus 3:1-14*
It is safe to say that everyone of us have made blunders and foolish decisions.
Most of us, if possible, some of us would go back in time and change those blunders.
I'm sure that as we look at the life of Moses, in Exodus chapter 3, he also would want to change his blunders.
All though 40 years have gone by, Moses would still want to go back in time and remove his pride, remove his anger, and remove the murder that he committed in Egypt.
As we come to Exodus chapter 3, I believe we will see that for 40 years Moses' foolish decision has been plaguing him.
Now he is 80 years old.
I have found their are 3 dangers most of us encounter when we serve God.
Moses, illustrates all three.
1st - Is running ahead of the will of God.
In Moses' younger life, he ran ahead of God's will.
2nd - Is retreating after we have failed.
You will fail, and like Moses, the tendency will be to retreat.
And never to serve God again.
* *Bob Deno, will never go into the ministry again.
That's Moses.
But God is about to enlist Moses back into service.
And if you are familiar with the story, Moses has no desire to be the deliver to serve God.
3rd - Is the feeling of inferiority.
You begin to compare yourself with others.
You will constantly think that someone else is always more qualified.
The problem is, God has been speaking to you.
You were called into service, not that other person.
When we come to Exodus chapter 3, we are not told that 40 years have gone by, since he left Egypt.
All we are told is that he now keeps the flock of his father in law.
Look at
*EXODUS 3:1*
*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.
(NIV)*
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Moses has no idea what the day held for him.
There was no message in the clouds, no rock slide, no thunder, no lightening.
There was no hint that his life was going to change.
It was just another day.
It is interesting that when revival comes, it arrives on ordinary days.
You may have been praying for it, but when it comes it always takes you by surprise.
Just like the day that David was told by his father to take some food to his brothers.
He did not know it, but there was a giant named Goliath just dying to be killed.
From that day forward, David's life will never be the same.
* *In 1630 an incredible revival broke out in Scotland.
John Livingstone had been asked to preach to the Kirk of Shotts.
It was the night before he was to speak.
What was so unusual about the request is that John Livingstone was a failure.
He spent the whole night in prayer, wondering what was he going to preach.
Then at 8:00 A.M., just hours before he was to preach, and he ran in fear.
He was determined that he was not going to preach.
He was not going to blow another assignment.
But the Spirit of God found him, and pulled him back to the study.
He opened his Bible and his finger landed on Ezekiel 36:25-26, which says,
*Ezekiel 36:25-26** *
*25 **I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols.
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
(NIV)*
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Because the day was bright and beautiful, it was decided to hold the service outside.
John Livingstone began to preach, the skies darkened, the thunder crackled, and it began to rain.
And the Spirit of God moved John Livingstone to say, "Do you have a shelter form the storm of God's wrath?"
As he finished his sermon, 500 hundred people trusted Jesus Christ as their savior.
To John Livingstone, it looked like just another day.
He had no idea that God was about to do a great work.
So it was for Moses, it was just another day in the desert.
He had been there 40 years.
Here is the point, when God leads you into a ministry, it happens on ordinary days.
Now look at *EXODUS 3:2*
*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.
(NIV)*
The word Hebrew word for bush *"BUSH"* means thorny shrub.
It was just like millions of others.
There was nothing unique about the shrub.
It was just another shrub.
And the fact that it burned was not unusual.
Spontaneous combustion often will burn a bush in the desert.
So the fact that there is a burning bush is not what catches Moses' attention.
What catches Moses attention is the fact that 3 hours have gone by, and the bush is still burning.
Maybe even 6 hours have gong by, and the bush is still burning.
And out of curiosity, Moses turns aside to get a closer look at this bush that will not burn out.
Look at:
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*Exodus 3:3** *
*3 **So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight -- why the bush does not burn up." (NIV)*
And as Moses gets close to the bush, look at VERSE 4 and see what happens.
*Exodus 3:4** *
*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." (NIV)*
Here is the point, once God saw the break in Moses concentration, God spoke to Moses.
Take time for God to speak to you.
We are in such a quick pace, get it done routine.
No wonder we seldom hear from God.
It is as if God has to take a number.
Even our private prayer life, you only ask God to do things for yourself.
It happens in the home.
Often I find myself just emptying the garbage.
Rather than wanting to spend time with my wife, I just do my own agenda.
We do that with God.
Our relationship with God, becomes just a bunch or rules that we manipulate for our own agenda.
Take time to hear what God is saying.
God says to Moses, "Moses, Moses."
God is not going to shout.
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