Any Old Bush
Theme of the Week: Selling Out
Luis Palau
Thursday, May 30, 2002
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Any Old Bush
Theme of the Week: Selling Out
Thursday, May 30
Key Bible Verses: I have been crucified with Christ. I myself no longer live, but Christ lives in me (Galatians 2:19–20). Bonus Reading:1 Corinthians 15:8–11
During my first semester at Multnomah School of the Bible, Torchbearers founder Major Ian Thomas spoke at our chapel service. He talked about how it took Moses 40 years in the wilderness to learn that he was nothing. Then one day Moses was confronted with a burning bush—likely a dry bunch of ugly sticks—yet Moses had to take off his sandals. Why? Because God was in the bush!
Major Thomas said, "God was telling Moses, 'I don't need a pretty bush or an educated bush or an eloquent bush. Any old bush will do as long as I'm in the bush. If I'm going to use you, it won't be you doing something for Me, but Me doing something through you.'"
I was that kind of bush: a useless bunch of dried-up sticks. I could do nothing for God. All my reading and studying and modeling myself after others was worthless unless God was in the bush. Only He could make something happen.
Thomas closed his message by reading [today's Key Bible Verses]. I ran back to my room and in tears prayed in my native Spanish. My spiritual struggle was finally over! I'd let God be God and let Luis be dependent upon Him.
—Luis Palau in Discipleship Journal
My Response: Is the way I am serving allowing God to be God?
Thought to Apply: We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.
—John Owen (English minister, 17th century)
Adapted from: Discipleship Journal (7-8/00) by permission.
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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May/June 2002,Vol. 5,No. 3
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