In Exodus 3 ...

Be Still, My Soul. I read something this week that suggested that maybe it wasn't as much about Moses and the burning bush as it was about God telling him to remove his shoes because he was on Sacred ground and he would have to be still and in oneness with God. 

Beginning in verse 3 ... 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." 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." "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt." But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" And God said, "I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain." Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then what shall I tell them?" God said to Moses, "I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.'" 

When we are in the presence of the I AM, will we remove the dirtiness of the world and become pure in heart and mind? Will we spend time listening to where he leads our mission? Will we sit in awe of His glory? Will we trust? 

I do not own the rights to the lyrics or music, but He is worthy to be proclaimed.

We face burning bushes at every turn, and God is with us. He is in the fire to mold us and make us unto His will while we are waiting, yielded, and STILL. Have thine own way, Lord. Have thine own way.

Years ago, my mother made a shoe with strings to help teach her grands to tie shoes. It was hard to get the kids to be still, but when they would be, they learned!!!