Article June 18, 2012 Issue

My own 'burning bush'

In a time of trouble, this woman took a walk with a “listening heart” and found the answers she needed.

Melanie Ball

If one is to believe the news reports, the world today is full of merciless, destructive, depressing, terrorizing events, and precious little good is going on. How then, is it possible to feel God’s presence and especially His love, here and now, right where evil seems to be so active and intimidating?

The biblical prophet, Moses, experienced many similar occurrences during his life. When Pharaoh decided to kill all male Hebrew babies, his mother hid him in a basket or “ark” made of bulrushes. The Egyptian Pharaoh’s daughter found the basket, and instead of turning him over to the Pharaoh’s men, took him as her own (see Exodus 2:1–10). 

Moses grew up in wealth, power, and privilege. However, when he recognized his Jewish heritage and saw his people’s oppressive enslavement by the Egyptians, he rebelled against the injustice. In the process, he slew an Egyptian overseer and had to flee into the wilderness. He became a shepherd and lived quietly for a number of years there.

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