We all know the story of Moses.  When he was grown, he killed a man that was lashing a Hebrew--one of his own brethren.  Moses knew where he came from--he wasn't a baby when Pharaoh's daughter took him to the palace--he remembered the family of his childhood.

The Bible says that Moses "looked this way and that way, and saw that nobody was watching.  He slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand."  But the Hebrew man knew, and the story spread like wildfire. Pharaoh heard, and set out to kill Moses.  So Moses fled for his life into the land of Midian--where he met a priest who had seven daughters.  He married one of them named Zipporah, had sons, and settled into a new life.  But God had other plans.  Those five women I wrote about yesterday had raised Moses to be a leader, and God wasn't going to waste the training those women had given him.

One day as Moses was tending his livestock, he saw a bush that was burning, and it didn't burn up--it just stayed on fire.  So Moses stopped to watch and wonder about the bush.  Then God spoke and said," Moses, Moses.  Take off your shoes for you are standing on holy ground."

God knows our names.  And when we are in his presence, we are always on holy ground.  Jesus said, "Hallowed be Thy name," when he was speaking about God in the Lord's prayer.  God is holy; he is hallowed.  But when God is going to indwell a person, it's not the bush that is holy.  Any old bush will do.  You, or me.  Or anyone who will, "Be still, and know that I am God."  What we have to do is recognize that something unusual is going on--that God is speaking to us.  But if we are not familiar with his voice, if we don't spend time with him, we will miss his call to speak to us.

God sent Moses back to Egypt and Moses was frightened, "O Lord, I am not eloquent.  I am slow of speech and have a slow tongue."  But he did as God directed.  "Moses took his wife and sons, set them upon a donkey and returned to Egypt where Moses was a wanted man. Which made Zipporah angry.  She took a sharp stone, circumcised her son, cast the skin at Moses feet and said, "Surely you are a bloody husband to me."  Probably because he was taking her son back to be a Hebrew where they practiced circumcision--and she was afraid of what was going to happen to him.

Can't say that I blame her.  Everyone knew that Pharaoh had been killing Hebrew boys.