Day 26

Today's Scripture is suitable to use with Imaginative Contemplation or Lectio Divina

Stilling: Come into the presence of God and still yourself

Grace: That called by the Risen Lord we will stretch and grow in joy, gratitude and a desire for self giving love.

Prayer Suggestion: Notice any word, phrase or image that strikes you in the scripture passage. Meditate with it and let it draw you into prayer.

You may like to be Moses or to imagine watching him at the Burning Bush.

12th Century Icon of Moses and the Burning Bush in Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai

Exodus 3:3-10 HCSB

Moses and the Burning Bush

As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.

So Moses thought: I must go over and look at this remarkable sight.

Why isn’t the bush burning up?

When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look,

God called out to him from the bush, “Moses, Moses!”

“Here I am,” he answered.

“Do not come closer,” He said.

“Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

Then He continued, “I am the God of your father,

the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”

Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

Then the Lord said,

“I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I know about their sufferings.

I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land,

a land flowing with milk and honey

—the territory of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

The Israelites’ cry for help has come to Me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.

Therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.”

Conversation: Talk with Jesus about what has struck you during this meditation.

Finish with a final prayer such as the Lord's Prayer/Our Father

A Thought for Today

God chooses to act decisively in history through this man with a past. Moses cannot possibly know at this stage, but it is at Mount Horeb – according to one tradition – that God will later give the law to the whole of the Israelite people. Then, crowds will gather before the mountain of thunder and cloudy fire.

For now, however, there is only a single man before a crackling bush.

And God had a great plan of liberation in mind – to call His people through Moses out of Egypt.

Please come into the deserts, the obscurities and disgraces of my life.

Meet me there.

We see God today looking with compassion on His people.

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