We know that Moses tended sheep in the wilderness for forty years. Moses had to work in the desert heat year in and year out, and probably every now and then a dry bush would burst into flames due to the super-hot conditions. Then one day Moses saw something unusual that captured his attention:
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" (Exodus 3:1-3).
What was unusual about this bush is that it burned, but it was not consumed. It just kept on burning. Moses could have easily dismissed this sight and went about his business, but he decided to investigate further. Upon closer examination, he had a surprising thing happen: "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" (Exodus 3:4).
God did not call Moses over to the bush. It was his curiosity that caused him to pause and look and then, and only then, did God call out to Moses and initiate a series of events that changed the course of history. In this order of events, first came Moses' curiosity, then his reaction, God's call, and finally Moses' response to God. There is another example of this from the New Testament. Do you every stop to think that it was Saul's interest, his obsession with persecuting Christians, that led him to become a Christian and later serve as the Apostle Paul? If God can use Saul's misdirected interest to direct his steps, then God can use your curiosities to do the same. What does this have to do with your purpose success?
There are many people waiting for God's call and perhaps you are one of them. Did you ever consider that the call may be in what interests you? You are busy and don't see how what interests you can develop into a career, so you don't pursue what is in your heart. Because you don't trust what is in you, you go about your business and wonder why God is not answering your prayers to be used or promoted. Where do your curiosities lie? In history? Math? Engineering? Poverty and how to alleviate it? Have you ever considered that God may want to use these curiosities like He did with Moses and Saul?
Make a list of those curiosities and then do something simple: Ask the Lord to help you understand them and to speak to you out of them, just like He did to Moses from the burning bush. Then turn your curiosities into action whether it be study, travel, or teaching, among other things, and see where those curiosities and interests take you.
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