The Calling
    Well, right after our Little Orphan Moses got hitched he took up the family business of herding sheep.  It is really an extravagant life you know.  It consist of walking, herding, and walking…well that is about it, but that is what our boy Moses was doing.
      One day while Moses was tending to the sheep of his father-in-law Jethro, he saw something he could not quite figure out. It was some sort of a blazing light.  Immediately, he thought to himself, “It must be aliens, like I saw on the X-Files.”  Well, needless to say Moses was totally wrong.   He strained his eyes to get a closer look.  The best he could figure out was that it must be a forest fire.  He exclaimed, “ Smoky the Bear would not be happy about this…not at all.”
So he went to do the scout thing and put the fire out.  As Moses climbed Mt. Horeb to get a closer look he began to realize that this was no ordinary fire.  The bush seemed to be burning but it would not burn up.
     Moses’ eyes immediately widened with the thought of money.  He could make a ton of money off this amazing un-burning bushy thingy.  People would pay millions, if there is such a thing, to see such a spectacle.  As he approached the flames the voice of God spoke out from within the bush, “MOSES!”
     Moses froze in fear.  “Yes God,” he whimpered.
    “Do not come any closer and take off your shoes boy! Didn’t your Mama teach you any manners!” God exclaimed.
Moses took his kicks off and God continued, “I am the God of your father.”
    “You mean Pharaoh?”
    “Boy, don’t interrupt God! And not your step dad, but your real dad that you don’t know.  I am his God.”
    “Okay I am sorry, please continue.”
    “All right, here I go again,” God said as he cleared his throat, “Were was I… Oh yeah… I am the God of your REAL dad, the God of Papy Abe, the God of Izzy, and the God of Jacob. Need I go on?”
Realizing that this was the true God Moses hide his face and covered his hip because he remembered from the story of Jacob that God had a mean Judo chop.
God continued, “I have seen what is going down in Egypt (you know the slavery thing and all) and I have not forgotten My promise to My people, and I want to rescue them but…”
    “But what?”  Moses reverently whispered.
    “But I want to use you to do it.”
    “Jigga’ what?” Moses exclaimed, “I am a known felon back in Egypt!  I killed a man remember.  I can’t go back there!  Surely, you can find someone better for this job like my brother Aaron. I mean after all you are God aren’t you?”
    “That is right ‘I AM WHO I AM’ and I choose to use who I want, and I choose to use you, but I will allow your brother Aaron to help you!” God was getting hot by now, “You will go and tell Pharaoh to let My people go, and this will be your sign; throw your staff to the ground.”
Moses threw his staff to the ground and it immediately became a snake.  “This is better then the burning bush,” Moses thought to himself.
God then said, “Moses pick it up.”
    “Are you crazy? I am not Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter.  It might bite me.”
    “Pick it up and go for I am sending you. Go!”
    Moses did go, and God proved Himself to be reliable once again.
 
 

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