Exodus 3:3b I will now turn aside, and see this great sight,

This is Moses’ burning bush moment. It is nothing except God’s way in Moses’ life to draw his attention away from whatever he was doing. It wasn’t a salvation moment, it God waving at Moses and saying “Hello there!”

Have you had your burning bush moment? I don’t mean that God is going to present to you a burning bush, but rather is just trying to get your attention. I’ve got mine. It happened when I was a teen. Others took it to mean I was saved. I don’t. There was no repentance in the moment. I will admit that God did a miracle in the moment, but the hello moment didn’t save me.

A burning bush moment is when God lets you know, by whatever means it takes, that He is God. It might not sound like a big deal, but how can you get to know and love a story, a belief system, or family heritage? God has to become real to you in order to have a relationship. Good or bad, if He isn’t real to you, then you do not have a relationship.

I hear so many time, “I’ve always believed in God.” I’ve never asked them if God ever said “Hello there.” I don’t because if you say you believe, then it is not for me to deny your word. Only you know why you believe. For me it began with God getting my attention and drawing me away from where I was headed. My salvation came many years later when I repented. That was my long overdue answer to His hello.

God revealing Himself in some way is only the first step. Are you going to be like Moses and say, “I have to check this out!” Or are you going to be like me as a teen and say, “That was weird.”

Philippians 3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Are you perfect? I am not, at least according to the standards I have set for myself. I know I can do better. I have in the past made jokes about perfection. Example; a rotten apple can be perfectly rotten. The standard of perfection has to have an example.

Paul’s example here in Philippians isn’t comparing Christians to Christ but rather Christians to fellow Christians. He is comparing apples to apples. He is not comparing apples to heavenly fruit. So why use the term perfect, as if in this life there is perfection? Look to the preceding scriptures to find clues as to the standard of perfection being referenced.

Verse 7, putting everything that I have achieved aside to know Christ.

Verse 9, to lose myself in Christ, to be found in Him.

Verse 10, His death, His resurrection, His suffering, His power, nothing in me but knowing Him.

Verse 12, He has a hold on me, not me on Him.

Verse 13, I am not there yet and 14, I keep moving in the right direction.

So what is perfection? From these leading verses I might say perfection might be in having the right attitude, mind-set, or belief system. If that is true, then how can I reflect on what I am in Christ?

Philippians 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

How can I know that He has achieved this and not me, myself?

Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

When your world is falling apart, you won’t.