ESV Scripture Journal Exodus

I've been reading I've been writing about the book of Exodus and I conducted a seminar with a variety of people on that book. I was reading this section the other day where the burning bush appears to Moses and it's really a compelling section because at that point Moses is outside of Egypt so he's no longer concerned with the tyranny or the Pharaoh or his strange heritage. He's gone off to this place called media. Media is media. Anyways to a foreign country it's media he's out with the media nights he's married a woman there he's taking care of his father-in-laws flocks they respect him he's got himself a life you know and it's kind of hassle free and he's wandering around near near Mount Sinai interestingly enough when something attracts his attention right and he decides to turn away from his path and to go investigate. And so to me what that story is reflecting is the fact that in our lives will be in a relatively comfortable position and something will back into us that we can decide to investigate and if we decide to investigate that will well God only knows what'll happen and that's what happens to Moses he goes off to the beaten path he goes to investigate the burning bush and the burning bush is a symbol of life and transformation at the same time right because fires a transformative element so he goes to investigate being that's life and becoming that's transformation and as he investigates it more deeply he finds that he starts to walk on sacred ground and God tells him he has to take his shoes off that's humility right and so and then as he investigates even more deeply the God of the Old Testament speaks to him and says that it's the same voice that called to Jacob and Isaac and Abraham and so this seems relevant to the issue of respect for tradition and so you could imagine imagine that there's a spirit that unites the great acts of history right it's all a manifestation of the same proper orientation towards what's highest that's represented in that story as the spirit of Yahweh and that part of what you do if you're called upon to be a leader which is of course the next thing that happens to Moses is that you bow down and have respect to that guiding spiritual principle that's operated over the entire corpus of history and so you seem to be making illusions to something like that when you said that for some reason you had a kind of intellectual or moral humility now why did you have that given the fact that you could have been you could have been inordinately proud of your own intellect I mean it was of stellar quality and you were definitely rewarded for it so how do you think that humility developed and why do you think people who are listening should give it some credence

But I just I know I see that a lot and another example historically speaking is of course Moses from the Bible from the book of Exodus who was, you know found as a babe in the rushes or whatever and adopted by a powerful family and then ultimately became a pretty important powerful political figure.