The Burning Bush

Exodus 3:1-22

(1)  Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

Ready to go!

 Got our sheep

Found our desert in our back field - anywhere that's not irrigated!

Found our mountain

(2)  And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

(3)  And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

(4)  And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

(5)  And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

(6)  Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

Found our bush

Took off our shoes

Hid our faces

(7)  And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

(8)  And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

 We started walking ... looking for a land that flowed with milk and honey.  Decided we needed flowers so the bees could make honey :-) so we went close to the lilac and rose bushes where the grass is watered.

Along the way, Caleb said, "I'm getting kind of tired".  So we talked about how the children of Israel got tired on their journey through the wilderness to Canaan ... and how God took care of them.

We found Canaan!

 I told the boys that if they heard the words "milk and honey" then we could have some; in fact, each time they heard those words, they could have a taste of honey.  Of course they "listened up".

After enjoying the milk and a taste of honey, they asked for more honey.  "That's enough", I said.


"Can we read it again?" they asked.  Smart kids!  And, mission accomplished: God's word is being fixed in their minds through a multi-sensory experience AND they want to read it again (never mind the motive of getting more honey, at least God's word is desirable!).