I will not forget, Lord, what the burning bush means. What did it mean to Moses? Exactly what You said it would mean: “This will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you” (Exodus 3:12, NIV).
A sign! How many times, Lord, have You spoken to me through a sign? Possibly none of them was as dramatic and arresting as a bush that burned and yet was not consumed. But signs nevertheless. For the important thing about a sign is not what it is but what it points to. And Your signs have pointed me to the same all-powerful One as the burning-bush sign pointed Moses. The God of the burning bush was to become the God of the Exodus. And the God of the Exodus became the God of the Red Sea deliverance.
Moses was able to do such marvelous exploits because he believed in that kind of a God. And he believed in that kind of God because of what he saw at the burning bush. The burning-bush experience created a foundation for Moses’ faith. If God could do that—
All of God’s actions for us are designed to build a platform underneath our faith. That is why I must have a personal burning bush. Someone else’s experience is valuable to me only as an incentive. But that incentive does nothing for me inwardly unless it leads me to a burning-bush experience in which spiritual reality becomes conviction.
Every child of God needs his burning bush, the place where God is so real he can no longer doubt, no longer equivocate, no longer rebel. He will never be the same person afterward. His remaining life may have its share of trials, burdens, and afflictions, as did Moses’, but it also will have its victories and triumphs. The burning bush tells us of a God who is so real that He dares us to doubt.
“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6).
Daily with the King 