CURIOSITY – FEEL THE FEAR AND DO IT ANYWAYS

Exodus 3: 2-3 NLT:

“There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up.

“This is amazing”, Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.”

Curiosity. God’s gift and curse to living things - could go both ways really, depends on whom you’re asking. Just like those with the half-empty glass mentality, those who are wary of curiosity as a curse deem it unstable and uncertain. Those people believe you should run away from the unknown –it could hurt you, it could kill you.

“Just stick to what you know.”

But, if Moses stuck to what he knew, there is no guarantee the Israelites would have been freed from Egypt, at least not then, not by Moses and definitely the scriptures would have had a different outcome. I mean, he knew nothing of a bush on fire that didn’t seem to burn up.

He could have run. “Uhn-uhn, this looks well strange and possibly dangerous, let me just return to my flock on time before I become unfortunate. I cannot come and die.”

God also knew Moses knew nothing of a burning bush, and used it as catchy bait to pique his interest. But God gave humans freewill and so that could have gone either way really. Moses could have become more scared than curious and bolted, like most of us would have. Then what?

God would still have saved His people. He may have just changed His messenger from Moses to a more mentally flexible and faithful (faith-full) person, that’s all. The Israelites would still be saved, but Moses may very well have lost out on his share of the blessing for being God’s messenger.

For responding unhealthily to curiosity.

As humans – lol, as Shantele, our first reaction when faced with unknowns might be curiosity followed very closely by caution and then what I call “logical fear”. I want to start a YouTube channel and have been curious about it for years. But how do I go about it? What do I talk about? Who would even listen? I don’t even own a camera.

And just like that, we squash the curiosity, we don’t even attempt to investigate the answer to these questions, we run before we ever have a chance to fail.

We need to learn to be willing to investigate, and be open to God’s pleasant surprises. Like Moses.

Today, when faced with an interesting unknown, would you run away and make excuses (further reading into Exodus 3 displays Moses presenting God with different reasons why he was not good enough or qualified for the mission) or go closer for a better look?

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

God may surprise you! #DoItAfraid