The burning call

At ministerial today there were many good comments on the text, especially the Exodus passage.  

Wise Ray Orth observed the foreshadow in verse one.
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Moses would one day bring his wandering flock to the far side of the desert through trial and trouble to the Mountain of God. This place where he first receives his call will one day be the destination of the fulfillment of the call.

Bill made an interesting application to our calls.  When God spoke to Moses through the burning bush he demonstrated his dominion of the gods of the land-bushes, streams and skies.  When he calls us, he shows his dominion of the gods of our age, our living selves.  Through our burning lives he demonstrates that he is still as powerful on that day when he made up his mind to deliver his people from Egypt.