Moses Turned Aside Taking Notice

 God chose Moses from the womb and protected him from death when the enemy tried to destroy a generation of sons from whom the deliverer of Israel would arise. BUT the FIRST ENCOUNTER Moses had with God did not happen until much later, and the first test that Moses passed was recorded in Exodus 3:4

"When the LORD saw that Moses had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered."

Who is paying attention to what God plans to do? I think about my return to God in 1982 in the same way. I was delighted to learn that God was "NOW" not passive towards our trials in life. At the same time, I was gripped with one question about the Church almost from the beginning: 'This is great, but where are all the Jews?'

I have distinct memory of thinking that exact thing as I stood in the sanctuary in the first year at the first church we made a return to God in. The church was pastored by a televangelist preaching the prosperity message. . .a prosperity that never manifested materially in our lives. It was a message that put me off the more I read the Bible. We moved on from there, but not once have I thought better of the question I had from the beginning. Like Moses, I turned aside to see that the church is great, but without the Jews it is incomplete. I was on the hunt from that time forward to find out where Jews were who believed in the Israeli Jewish Messiah.

The Israeli Messianic Jews are being starved out in ministry resources because too few Christians have turned aside to see what God is doing among them. They are like the burning bush of our day. Would I dare to think I could live in great prosperity while they are in increasing strangleholds of lack of ministry resources? No, I do not dare to think that way. Their plight is my plight, just like their vindication will be my vindication and it will come undeniably from God.

Will God use you? First you have NOTICE what God wants you to notice - like a tree engulfed in fire yet not consumed by it.