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.
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. Then
Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does
not burn.” 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.” Then He said, “Do not draw near this place.
Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy
ground.” 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. 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. 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. 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. Come
now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people,
the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:1-10)
The right thing
done the wrong way is still wrong. The right
thing done the wrong time is also wrong.
Moses made both
mistakes. He tried to do the right thing
in his abortive attempt to liberate his fellow Hebrews—but by killing an
Egyptian oppressor with his own hands it was the wrong way and wrong time. Only the right thing, done the right way at
the right time is always right.
Otherwise, what you have is a mess!
Some of us have
made such a mess. Does God have a
message in our mess?
Must we say, “I’ve fallen and I
can’t
get up!”? If that is so, then only perfect people have
hope. Everybody else is ruined—and that’s everybody—for all have
fallen short of the glory of God.
There was hope for
Moses and there is hope for me. Of that
we can be confident. God was going to
carry out His plan through Moses in His time and His way. Failure need not be final. We can get up and go on by the grace of
God. The Lord knows who you are and
where you are and He may be calling your name today. Are you listening? Will you turn aside and meet with Him?
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