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Added ValueIf you wander into a sports specialty store, you may be overwhelmed by the amazing variety of what is available, and at such reasonably low prices. Anything you could want! And yet, if you were to walk into a sports memorabilia store, and find there a baseball or football signed by a famous sports figure, suddenly the price goes up dramatically. A base ball that might otherwise go for a few dollars, now would cost you tens of thousands! What has made the difference? It has been touched by a professional. When a truly amazing figure handles something, there is added value.
Exodus tells the story of a man who was seeking to get lost among the discounted inhabitants of the Sinai desert when one day he was touched by a professional. Amazing value was affirmed and infused. At first he tried to convince God that He had the wrong person. He didn't have the skills. He was not the best option. God's only response was "I AM WHO I AM" and that was enough. You know the story. You can review it to the right
This week Pastor Saul invites us to think about our stories in light of this story and many others like it. If you would like to listen to the sermon again, or perhaps for the first time, you can access our
Exodus 3 (TNIV)
1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”
5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
7 The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”
13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’
“This is my name forever,
the name you shall call me
from generation to generation.
Where are the places where you are hearing God inviting you to move into what He his calling you towards?
What is it that you have in your hand?
What else are you hearing in this story?
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