Prayer: Walk with us on our journey, Lord, where you send us. Amen.
Reading: Exodus 3: 13-14 (Click to read text) Stop and GROW: After reading the text, discuss/ponder the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Book of Faith questions, which are part of Camp Mount Luther's GROW Time with campers. QUESTION 1: What scares, confuses, challenges, or doesn’t make sense to me in this text? QUESTION 2: What delights me in this text or is my favorite part of the story? QUESTION 3: What stories or memories does this text stir in me? QUESTION 4: What is God up to in this text? Reflection: Sometimes God doesn’t give us much to go on. Here’s poor old Moses, minding his own business, watching his father-in-law’s sheep. He comes across this burning bush. That is odd, but stranger yet is that the bush doesn’t go out. So, he goes to see what is going on. I would, too, wouldn’t you? God sometimes uses rather dramatic events to get our attention. Anyhow, while Moses is watching the bush burn, God calls him. “Moses, Moses,” God says. Now God really has his attention! Somehow this isn’t going to be good. Well a burnin’ bush told me just the other day, that I should come over here and say… that I gotta’ get my people outta Pharoah’s hand… Moses figures that this is a bigger job than he really wants to tackle, so he makes up excuses. One of them is that he doesn’t have much credibility with the Israelites and asks God to back him up. Like, maybe they’ll believe me if I tell them that you sent me. What is your name? (Big drum roll…) “I AM WHO I AM.” That’s it? Yep, that’s it. Sometimes God sends us on missions and promises to go with us just as he reassured Moses. Sometimes we want just a little more. Like maybe if God would find some splashy way to accomplish the task. Or if we knew that we wouldn’t be laughed at. Sometimes we want to be sure that this job God sends us on really makes sense and has some reasonable chance of success. Well, most of the time we don’t get those kinds of reassurances. I AM just sends us and promises to go along. That’s all we get. That ALL we get? Should really be enough, don’t you think? God chooses us, God calls us, God sends us, and God walks with us. Thanks be to God! --Jim Bricker
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