The Calling
📖 Verse: Exodus 3:4
📝 “God called to him from within the bush, ‘Moses! Moses!’”
🔍 Verse in Context – 7 Reflections
- After killing a man, Moses flees to Midian—a place of exile and hiding.
- He spends 40 years in obscurity, tending sheep in the wilderness.
- God meets him there—not in a palace, but in solitude.
- The bush is on fire but doesn’t burn—a symbol of God’s paradoxical presence.
- God calls him by name, twice—personal, direct, urgent.
- This is where God speaks the divine name: “I AM WHO I AM.”
- Moses is being called not just to action, but to intimacy with the eternal.
❓ Journal Questions
- What in your life feels like a wilderness?
- How do you recognize when God is calling your name?
🙏 Prayer
Lord, find me even when I’m running.
May Your fire burn in me, but never consume me.
Amen.