"When God speaks, many of us are like people in a fog, and we give no answer. Moses’ reply to God revealed that he knew where he was and that he was ready. Readiness means having a right relationship to God and having the knowledge of where we are. We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. Yet the man or woman who is ready for God and His work is the one who receives the prize when the summons comes. We wait with the idea that some great opportunity or something sensational will be coming our way, and when it does come we are quick to cry out, “Here I am.” Whenever we sense that Jesus Christ is rising up to take authority over some great task, we are there, but we are not ready for some obscure duty." ~ Oswald Chambers
I get lost in the fog of small, obscure tasks.
Today I want to do them for His glory, with the awareness that He is in every detail. To do them without the anxious longing for the next thing, the big thing, the thing that surely pleases God more than this menial task.
I have laundry, meals, packing, and more packing to tackle today. This threatens to fog me, but not if I do it with ears open.
Moses was just tending sheep in the desert and I don't think it gets much more mundane than that.
So if he can hear over the bleating of sheep and mind-numbing solitude, surely I can hear over the hum of the washer and the sound of Babe the pig entertaining my 'helpers'.
Are you doing the obscure and the mundane today? Watch for the burning bush.
