Editorial December 1, 1986 Issue

The test of prayer

Michael D. Rissler

Like the story of Jesus, whose early years we know little of, Moses' life has large gaps in the Scriptural record. Vivid glimpses of powerful episodes, though, break through like the bright beacon of a lighthouse across a dark, tempest-tossed sea.

One incident in particular in Moses' life shines ever so brightly, illuminating his response to the dawning spiritual understanding of God and His relation to man.

Some forty years pass between his exile from Egypt and his encounter with God on Mount Horeb. Here we see him on the brink of the kind of spiritual discovery that redirects a man's life and eventually reaches far beyond the confines of the initial encounter. A bush burns on that holy ground but is not consumed. And just then, as Moses is about to move forward in response to God's call, he hears this instruction: "Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."^{Ex. 3:5.}

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