Hey friends, welcome to the Graceology with Gwen Smith podcast.

I'm Gwen Smith and I'm really glad you're here.

Each week I host two different shows, one with incredible guests and meaningful conversations,

and one called A Moment of Grace, where

it's just me, talking to just you, in a reflective, devotional style to help connect those

busy, bruised, and broken places to the beautiful hope of Jesus. So now I invite you to sit

back and take a deep breath as I share with you a moment of grace.

On the far side of a desert, high upon the mountain of God, a voice called out to Moses from within a curious, fiery bush.

He'd been tending to the sheep of his father-in-law's flock, going about his

normal, day in, day out tasks on the day that God spoke to him from the flames. On the day God

called Moses to a fresh and fiery mission, a mission of deliverance. Once a noble prince of

Egypt with a world at his feet, he had become

a lowly shepherd with dust on his sandals. His crown had been traded in for a staff. Those

palestays were far behind Moses now. He fled because of what he had done, glancing to his left

and his right, to be sure that no one

would know what he was about to do, Moses took a horrible situation into his own hands and killed a

man. He murdered an Egyptian and covered the death with sand. Fear and shame bombarded his heart,

so he fled, away from his dream-filled royal future to a desert place of humble hiding.

The door to his yesterdays was closed. Moses had moved to a new place. His past was his past and he had no intentions of returning to it.

His life was different now. Normal, not

noble. Then God interrupted Moses' new normal. His plans for Moses were different, bigger. God's

intentions were for freedom, the freedom of his people, the Israelites who were captives, slaves to Egypt. God called

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