Streams in the Desert October 22 Daily Devotional

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and
came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a
bush (Exod. 3:1, 2).
The vision came in the midst of common toil, and that is where the Lord delights to give His revelations. He seeks a man who is on the ordinary road, and the Divine fire leaps out at his feet The mystic
ladder can rise from the market place to Heaven. It can connect the realm of drudgery with the realms of grace.
My Father God, help me to expect Thee on the ordinary road. I do not ask for sensational happenings. Commune with me through

ordinary work and duty. Be my Companion when I take the common journey. Let the humble life be transfigured by Thy Presence.
Some Christians think they must be always up to mounts of
extraordinary joy and revelation; this is not after God's method. Those spiritual visits to high places, and that wonderful
intercourse with the unseen world, are not in the promises; the daily fife of communion is. And it is enough. We shall have the exceptional revelation if it be right for us.
There were but three disciples allowed to see the transfiguration,
and those three entered the gloom of Gethsemane. No one can stay on
the mount of privilege. There are duties in the valley. Christ found His life-work, not in the glory, but in the valley and was there truly and fully the Messiah. The value of the vision and glory is but their gift of fitness for work and endurance.
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