30/08/2026
This week, Dan our minister, has contributed the daily devotions to Sanctuary First. This week, and every week, they offer daily devotions in their app, on their website, and via social media from a variety of contrinbutors which are a helpful way to conect with God.
A Bunch of Rocks — Exodus 3: 1–15
(You can listen to this Daily Worship post at: sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/daily-worship/a-bunch-of-rocks)
Did you know that your mobile phone is a very complicated box of rocks?
That is, admittedly, understating several decades of extraordinary engineering. But strip a smartphone back far enough and you find minerals, metals and other materials dug from the earth. Depending on how you count them, dozens of different elements are needed to make the thing in your pocket work.
Which means, somewhere along the line, somebody looked at a rock and thought: we could make this send cat videos around the world.
In our reading Moses is also surrounded by the ordinary stuff of the earth. Rocks, dust, sheep, scrub and a bush.
Then the bush burns.
And suddenly something utterly ordinary becomes the place through which God speaks.
I wonder how often we miss God because we are waiting for something that looks more obviously divine? How often do we miss God’s call because all we can see is a bunch of rocks? Moses doesn't find God in a church, a temple or through some carefully planned religious experience. He is at work, in the wilderness, when something ordinary catches his attention.
That is where expressing God's love begins. Not with having particularly special things, but noticing what God might do with the ordinary things already around us.
Even rocks can become a phone.
Even a bush can become holy ground.
Prayer:
Dear God,
Help us turn aside, pay attention, and discover you in the ordinary stuff of life.
Amen.
Rev Dan Harper
