On this Bonfire Night in the UK, Dave spoke this morning from Exodus 3:1-6 on the burning bush – the means that God chose to call Moses to set His people free. Moses, at this stage of his life, had possibly forgotten his calling to lead God’s people; he was in a dead-end job in Midian as a consequence of his murder years before. Sometimes, we feel our past holds us in chains, but Moses was about to discover that God had not forgotten him.
Often, we view good and bad as being like weights on a scale; we hope our good deeds will outweigh our bad and then God will forgive us and let us be with Him in heaven. Ultimately, our good deeds can never be enough to wipe the slate clean, however (even if we have not sinned as Moses did), but God is able to free us and cleanse us totally through Jesus because He wants to. Salvation is unearned and undeserved. Moses was told to take off his shoes for he was standing on holy ground; God’s holiness means that sin can never be ignored, but He has made the way for us to be holy.
Holiness means to be ‘set apart’ for God. We need to stop making excuses and depend on God to help us to live for Him. We need the Holy Spirit living inside us: the burning bush Moses experienced needs to be a fire inside us as God dwells in us by His Spirit. When the Holy Spirit is working in us, He will make us holy and enable us to live for Him.
