The Burning Bush: Nec tamen Consumebatur
The Burning Bush: Nec tamen ConsumebaturExodus 3:1-12 If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to Exodus, chapter 3, as we come to that incident of the burning bush. This is for the second consecutive week a pivotal passage pregnant with meaning in the Exodus story, a section that records the call of Moses into service as the deliverer of God’s people. But before we get to that story, we perhaps needs to remember some of the themes we’ve already seen. Already in Exodus, chapter 1, we’ve seen the deliberate way that Moses links creation and redemption. God’s work of redemption is just as great and broad a work as is his work of creation, in the repetition of the phrase “fruitful and multiplied” several times in Exodus, chapter 1, Moses ties in what God…