Just an ordinary day

There is an extraordinary scene that takes place on Ex. Chapter 3. Specifically, the first 10 verses. 

Moses is out in the field, tending sheep, doing ordinary work. It probably stinks, it's probably hot. It's probably not how I'd like to spend my time, but I digress. 

In the midst of the ordinary, something extra ordinary occurred. 

Off In this distance, Moses noticed a bush that was on fire, but wasn't burning up. 

He decided to investigate, and as he gets closer, a Voice from within the bush speaks to him and tells him that the very place he was standing on was holy ground. He removed his shoes, and the two, Moses and God had a conversation, and God would ultimately call Moses to help lead his people out from oppression.

What interests me in this passage, Is the simple fact that Moses was doing his work. Nothing special, he wasn't looking for a God encounter, he was just being obedient to what his FIL had asked him to do. 

Most times, this is how God will show up in our lives, in the ordinary. When we are walking our dog. When we are washing dishes. When we are playing with our Kids. When we are doing the everyday ordinary things, God will show up and speak to us in extraordinary ways. He might not ask us to lead a million people into a new place to live, but He will ask you to be obedient to Him, and that is all he is looking for. Obedience. 

Romans 12 in The Message says is quite nicely:  "So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. 

May God take our ordinary lives and use them for His extraordinary purposes.