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Exodus 3 — The Burning Bush
God meets Moses in the wilderness and reveals His name. The bush burns but is not consumed — a picture of God Himself, ever-burning, never-diminished. From this moment, the deliverer of Israel is commissioned.
“And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM.”
— Exodus 3:14
- v.1-3 The burning bush that is not consumed
- v.4-6 God calls Moses by name; holy ground
- v.7-10 The commission — go deliver my people
- v.11-12 Moses's first objection — who am I?
- v.13-15 The divine name revealed — I AM
- v.16-22 The plan — elders, signs, the spoiling of Egypt
Holy ground requires a different posture. Sandals, the dust of the world, cannot be brought into His presence.
The principle endures. Approaching God casually is not boldness — it is irreverence. Bold access (Hebrews 4:16) is always accompanied by reverence (Hebrews 12:28).
The most profound self-disclosure in Scripture before the Incarnation. God's name is not a description but a being — pure, eternal existence.
Jesus claimed this name as His own seven times in John's Gospel: I AM the bread, the light, the door, the shepherd, the resurrection, the way, the vine. In John 8:58 He said plainly, "Before Abraham was, I AM" — and they took up stones.
Every other being can only say "I was" or "I will be." Only God can simply say "I AM." He has no past beginning and no future end. He is the eternal present tense.
Moses's question is the right question — but at the wrong moment. "Who am I" matters far less than "Who is sending me."
God's answer to Moses's self-doubt is not flattery but presence: "Certainly I will be with thee" (v.12). The qualification for any divine assignment is not capacity — it is the presence of the One who sends.
When God calls, the question is never "Am I enough?" — it is "Is He enough?" Moses gave God five excuses across two chapters; God answered every one with His own presence and power. If He has called you to something, the resources will come from Him, not from you.
Jesus took up the divine name as His own. "Before Abraham was, I AM" (John 8:58) was the most direct claim He ever made to deity — and His audience understood it perfectly. The bush of Sinai burned with the same fire that walked Galilee.
The angel of the Lord here is widely understood as a theophany — a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ Himself. He speaks as God, identifies as God, and accepts worship as God in this passage.
A bush burning without being consumed: the perfect emblem of God. Fire is His nature (Hebrews 12:29). Yet what He indwells, He does not destroy. The believer is the antitype — filled with fire, kept alive in it.
The setting matters. Moses had spent forty years tending sheep. God meets His servants in obscure places, not on platforms.