Good morning people who refuse to place God into the box of your own understanding.

Exodus 3:1-4 NIV 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. 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. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” 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.”

This was a very strange and supernatural event. Actually, as I think about it, the elements of this sign were all natural – it was a bush and it was fire. Sometimes God moves in ways that we clearly see are “spiritual”, while sometimes He gets our attention through very ordinary elements and circumstances.

This verse makes me think of the first four verses of Acts 2. The upper room experience also involved some natural elements as well as some indefinable elements. But it most definitely fitted into the category of “we can’t adequately explain what happened – it was like…”

Acts 2:1-4 NIV When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Do you allow yourself to see the hand of God in the things that make no rational sense to you?