Sometimes I just feel bad for Moses. For whatever reason God decided to hold off on burning bushes in today’s society, it’s almost like we hold that against him. I know Christians look at people in the Bible and think “man, if I knew what God wanted as clearly as if I had a burning bush talking to me, I would totally be able to do it.” It’s just the uncertainty of the call that stops most of us from movement. Or is it?
Because we look at Moses and think “How can a person that experiences God in a way in which he literally talks to Him in the flesh and hears such a specific call to action, admit his fear and doubt verbally back to Him that created him and his purpose. We are envious of his supernatural clarity and therefore think him an idiot for still acting like a human.
Well, on Moses’ behalf, I get it.
Sometimes when I stop and think logically about the events and decisions of my life, it doesn’t make sense and sometimes doesn’t even sound like a good idea. (Actually, this is the best way I’ve learned to discern that it is God’s idea, and not my own. I’ve learned that what makes sense to me always ends up to be a hot mess once I’m through with it.)
This whole moving to Chile thing might as well come through a burning bush, so why would I feel so inadequate and fearful that God wouldn’t give me whatever I need to accomplish His plan for the rest of it? It’s because, as many Easters as I’ve lived through, I don’t always live like I understand the Resurrection.
If you live like you understand the resurrection, you know that the worst thing that could ever happen in this world has already happened – the death of Christ. He has already made a spectacle of death, yet we still fear it! And hundreds of other far less threatening things…
If you live like you understand the resurrection, you do not live reactionary. The rules have already changed, the battle has already been won, and therefore we don’t surrender to circumstance.
If you live like you understand the resurrection, you know that the cross is the ONLY real display of power that the world has ever seen.
We live in world that doesn’t understand the resurrection, one plagued with fear. I hate to say that I fall prey to it on occasion, but I know that it is the truth of His resurrection that will set me free to live the life and calling God designed specifically for me.
So step off Moses, because he didn’t have the Resurrection to free himself yet. But if you see me (Christine) starting to doubt or fear, you have my full permission to kick me (hard) in the butt and redirect me to this simple truth.
(Also, for the best Easter sermon I have heard in 27 years, go here, probably after Tuesday or Wednesday!)
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