40 Days with Moses 2025 Year of Exposure Day 3: The extraordinary often appears in the ordinary.

40 “Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.””

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭3:1-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Let’s face it, people desire to see some awesome supernatural occurrence. In fact, some of the most successful movies have plots centered around something having to do with the supernatural.

Indeed, superheroes, super villains, fantastical imagery, and so on, all tend to spark the imagination, the desire to see, to experience, something beyond the natural world.

Even in the church we see people drawn by signs and wonders. Certainly, signs and wonders are meant to confirm the word of God. But it is not good when people get stuck on the notion of HAVING to see something extraordinary in order to believe what God has said.

As a matter of fact, people who are always seeking after the extraordinary, may miss the truly extraordinary often wrapped in the ordinary.

Additionally, if we miss the signs of God’s sovereignty always all around us, we will certainly miss the miraculous.

“But He replied to them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and has a threatening look.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but cannot interpret the signs of the times? An evil and [morally] unfaithful generation craves a [miraculous] sign; but no sign will be given to it, except the sign of [the prophet] Jonah.” Then He left them and went away.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭16:2-4‬ ‭AMP‬‬

In the above incident Jesus is not speaking against signs per se, He is saying that they (the religious leaders) already had signs all around them—specifically concerning his validity as the Messiah—which they were ignoring. So—given that they were ignoring those signs—He said that they would receive no other sign except that of Jonah.

“But Jesus replied, “Only an evil, adulterous generation would demand a miraculous sign; but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭12‬:‭39‬-‭40‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Last time we left Moses having married the daughter of Jethro and having a son with her (he subsequently had another son with her). In our opening scripture we find him 40 years later, doing what he had been doing for those 40 years: tending the flocks of Jethro.

“Forty years later, in the desert near Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to Moses in the flame of a burning bush.”

‭‭Acts 7‬:‭30‬ NLT

On this day Moses is tending the flock near the Mountain of God, Mount Horeb (a.k.a. Mount Sinai). He notices that a bush is burning. Now, a bush burning in the desert would not have been an unusual sight given the dryness of the area and the common occurrence of lightening in dry thunderstorms (the desert air is so dry that the precipitation evaporates before hitting the ground).

What was extraordinary on this day was that this particular bush did not burn up. This gets Moses attention and he turns aside to see what would happen next. Little did Moses know that his world was about to be rocked!

It’s not wrong to enjoy the signs and wonders our precious Lord so often affords us. But we must not make the mistake of missing the truly extraordinary He often dispenses in what could have been seen as a common occurrence on “just another day.”

For today let us discover what Moses discovered:

The extraordinary often appears in the ordinary.

Peace to you.

Jesus is coming! Get ready for Him!