The Burning Bush Principle

The following illuminating words are from Norman Grubb's booklet The Key to Everything:

"Moses, in his own opinion, had been a very uncommon royal bush, and God doesn't live in uncommon royal bushes. Then Moses saw this sight: God's presence, God's word out of a common bush--and as the divine fire consumes the bush, it refuels it. 'The bush was not consumed.'

"That's exactly what God does. The divine life keeps flowing in, as you give it out.

"That is receptivity: the key to true humanity. Then you move out into activity.

"No one is active like a Christian, because he is motivated by the divine resources, the divine power, the divine Person. We've got to learn by our hard knocks to clear out of the way and recognize Another functioning; get His voice, His plans, His resources. Then we come back into the situation as servant, not boss.

"Once you have come to understand that your basic function is a constant recognition of Another, the whole of life is transformed.

"It isn't a matter of continually allowing Him to come into your life, because you have received Him. But it is the recognition of Another.

"Another is the functioning one.

"Another is the Person who inspires the prayers and imparts the faith and thinks the thoughts through our minds and expresses His compassion through our hearts and puts our bodies into action.

"Once you've seen that, you see that He is the illimitable One.

"Then you relax and say, 'This is what life is basically: Another living His life in me.'

"You've got your key to everything.

"Every problem becomes an opportunity.

"Every tough spot becomes a chance to enjoy the luxury of seeing Him deliver us out of it.  And you welcome such spots."