Contemplative Bible Reading

Exodus 3:1 (New Living Translation)

One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro…

These words begin the (hi)story of God bringing the people out of slavery in Egypt and into the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It all started “one day.”

It was just another day for Moses—once a prince in Egypt, but now just a sheep herder in some backwater nowhere—as he was tending livestock. And these weren’t his livestock. Moses didn’t have any livestock. And these weren’t the livestock of his family. These animals belonged to his father-in-law. How mundane can this be? Awful.

But one day… the world changed.

I am typing these words while riding in a car one day on an Interstate highway. Just another “one day” in a life full of them. Perhaps this is the day that God has me do something with someone else that changes the world for that someone else. Perhaps this is one of many days that God has me do something with someone else that changes the world for that someone else.

After all, today is one day. Burning bush? Probably not. Chat with the checkout person at a gas station? Maybe or probably.