Bushes Are Burning

What if the struggles, detours, and desert seasons of our lives are not signs that God has forgotten us, but rather the very stages on which his story is being written? That is the provocative and deeply personal question at the heart of this message. Drawing from the account of Moses at the burning bush in Exodus chapter 3, we are invited to reconsider everything we thought we knew about the quiet, ordinary, and even painful chapters of our lives. Moses was eighty years old, on the backside of a desert, tending sheep that were not even his own, when God showed up. No conference. No crowd. No platform. Just a burning bush on common dirt that God declared holy ground. The central revelation here is stunning in its simplicity: the ground is holy not because of where it is, but because of who is there. And God is always there. This message challenges us to pay closer attention to our daily lives, because bushes are burning all around us. In the grocery store, at the dinner table, in the middle of our trials and our triumphs, God is speaking. The question is whether we are paying attention. If we are in a season where we feel invisible, insignificant, or like our story is over, this is a word that refuses to let us put a period where God has placed a comma.