Read Exodus 3:1-15
One day
while Moses was taking care of the sheep and goats of his father-in-law Jethro,
the priest of Midian, he led the flock across the desert and came to Sinai, the
holy mountain. 2There the angel of the Lord
appeared to him as a flame coming from the middle of a bush. Moses saw that the
bush was on fire but that it was not burning up. 3“This is strange,”
he thought. “Why isn’t the bush burning up? I will go closer and see.”
4 When
the Lord saw that Moses was coming
closer, he called to him from the middle of the bush and said, “Moses! Moses!”
He
answered, “Yes, here I am.”
5 God
said, “Do not come any closer. Take off your sandals, because you are standing
on holy ground. 6I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob.” So Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at
God.
7 Then
the Lord said, “I have seen how
cruelly my people are being treated in Egypt; I have heard them cry out to be
rescued from their slave-drivers. I know all about their sufferings, 8and
so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of
Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the
Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites now live. 9I have indeed heard the cry of my
people, and I see how the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10Now
I am sending you to the king of Egypt so that you can lead my people out of his
country.”
11 But
Moses said to God, “I am nobody. How can I go to the king and bring the
Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 God
answered, “I will be with you, and when you bring the people out of Egypt, you
will worship me on this mountain. That will be the proof that I have sent you.”
13 But
Moses replied, “When I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your
ancestors sent me to you,’ they will ask me, ‘What is his name?’ So what can I
tell them?”
14 God
said, “I am who I am. This is what you must say to them: ‘The one who is called
I AMf
has sent me to you.’ 15Tell the Israelites that I, the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, have sent you to them. This is my name for
ever; this is what all future generations are to call me.
Think
Last week we read how Moses
was laid in the Nile and picked up by Pharaoh's daughter. Now he has fled from Egypt and while tending
flocks far away God reminds him to return and do what he was created to do.
Pray
Who am I that you should send
me?
2 3.2–10: Ac
7:30–34
3 3.2–10: Ac
7:30–34
4 3.2–10: Ac
7:30–34
5 3.2–10: Ac
7:30–34
6 3.2–10: Ac
7:30–34
7 3.2–10: Ac
7:30–34
8 3.2–10: Ac
7:30–34
9 3.2–10: Ac
7:30–34
10 3.2–10:
Ac 7:30–34
13 3.13:
Ex 6:2, 3
14 3.14:
Rev 1:4, 8
f I am who I am ... I AM; or I will be who I will be ... I WILL
BE. “I am” sounds like the Hebrew name
Yahweh, traditionally transliterated as Jehovah. This name is represented in
this translation by “the Lord” in
capital letters, following a usage which is widespread in English versions.
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