Mosheh
lectio (Ex 3.1 to 15)
3, [1] Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-priest of Midian, and brought the flock to the desert and came to the mountain of God, Horeb. [2] The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in the middle of a bush. He looked and behold, the bush burned with fire, but the bush was not consumed. [3] Moses said: "I must go and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt." [4] The Lord saw that he turned to look, God called him from the bush, 'Moses, Moses. "He said," Here I am. "[5] He said," Do not come! Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground. "[6] And he said:" I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob " . Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God [7] The Lord said: "I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters for I know his suffering. [8] have come down to rescue them from the hands of the Egyptians and to bring them out of this land into a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place where the Canaanites, Hittites, the Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and the Jebusites. [9] And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. [10] Now go '! I will send you to Pharaoh. It 'my people out of Egypt, the Israelites. "[11] Moses said to God:" Who am I to go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? ". [12] said," I I'll be with you. Here's the sign that I sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain. [13] Moses said to God: "Behold, I go to the Israelites and say to them: The God of your fathers has sent me to you. But I say: What do you call? And what I say to them?. "[14] And God said to Moses:" I am who I am. "Then he said:" Say to the Israelites: I AM hath sent me unto you. "[15] And God said to Moses," Say the children of Israel: The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob has sent me to you. This is my name forever, this is the way I am to be remembered from generation to generation.
The name of Moses appears in the Hebrew Bible 770 times. Its name in both Hebrew and Arabic is explained starting from the root meaning mashah extract, withdraw. Mosheh was born in Egypt where the Israelites were subjected to slavery (Exodus 1:11) and ran the risk of disappearing as a people. To accelerate the process of death of people, every male child born was to die (Exodus 1:16). Mosheh is saved from the water by Pharaoh's daughter and who was a slave, becomes like his son (Exodus 2:1-10). The Egyptian name that receives the child, probably theophoric as Tut-Moses (= son [born] of Ra ... Tut). But
Mosheh remains keenly aware of being jew and slavery of the brothers he raises in solidarity with them (Exodus 2:11-12), but is forced to flee (Exodus 2:15).
In the name of Moses, according to the Hebrew, read from left to right, there is an anagram of the ineffable Name: Ha-Shem, that the text takes on a new historical-salvific action of God is given a new name to those who have a new task. It usually comes from hajah (hawah = be) as if to say that YHWH is to be what comes to be. In this report we have God's call of Moses.
The first 6 verses that tell the call of Moses, the Book of Deuteronomy reminds us that: "no longer arose in Israel a prophet like Mosheh - he with whom the Lord knew face to face - for all the signs and wonders the Lord had sent him to do in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, against all his servants, and against all his land, and the mighty hand and with great terror which had operated before Mosheh the sight of all Israel. " (Dt 34.10 to 12).
These verses speak of the greatness of a man for what he has done, but the greatness of Moses is not in this, but what was done: God calls him and tells him confiding his plans on the history of Israel and all humanity. But how is this called?
The call that God makes no demands, it requires no special places or professions. Mosheh kept the flock of her father in the wilderness (v. 1). God meets us wherever we are and whatever we do, especially in the desert of our lives. That's why the meeting is presented in the triple aspect of extraordinary, fascinating and mysterious:
1. extraordinary: the bush was not consumed. (V. 2);
2. fascinating Mosheh thought, "I must go and see" (v. 3);
3. mysterious: "Do not come! Mosheh hid his face "(vv. 5-6).
In our life we \u200b\u200bcan meet this triple aspect of our faith that you encounter.
Mosheh see something extraordinary that appeals to him: the Angel of the Lord appearing in flames of fire in the middle of a bush to say, using a metaphorical language, that God, when you meet the man, escapes his grasp and his possession. It is the extraordinary nature of God which is becoming more attractive and makes us closer to Him (see 3), as it was for Jacob at Bethel (Gen 28.16-17) and will be for Joshua at Jericho (Joshua 5:13-15).
In this extraordinary ordinary life, God breaks personally meeting you burning with passion for life by name.
The call of God is the story of a mission because every day has a pharaoh, and we must answer that leads to Love. "Human history - your history as well as the history of every boy and girl - is crossed by the story of God that is a story of compassion that takes to heart and the human suffering associated with each of us in this story of liberation and love "(Carmine Di Sante).
Mosheh makes the encounter with the God of history and at that time combines the past with the present, combining faith with life, why Mosheh spoke face to face with God, start a new story fascinating and mysterious, even God wants to continue the story with Mosheh. It should be noted that the dialogue with Mosheh widens the people to whom the same belongs to Mosheh and that nagging thought of God (v. 7). This thought is' "get" God, it does bend the height of man, but he needs to Mosheh "ascend" from the land "to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey" ( v. 8).
In the journey of the people with Mosheh, there is our path from the top (God) and down in the misery of our nothingness (v. 7), before rising again to the High (God). In this way it is continually meeting, God is present (v. 12), walks beside us.
Our vocation is to become children and die in a mundane logic of practice, the old man to die and be reborn to new life, the logic of the gift of the Kingdom and is the revelation made to Mosheh and at the same time to all the people through the new "identity card" and requires that Mosheh clue for you all: 'Ehyeh' asher 'ehyeh is translated as I will be who I am or I am who I am.
The Jew, the Semite have a different concept time, combined in two different forms depending on whether the action is performed that describe or unfinished. This is expressed by adding a personal pronoun to the name. So the "new identity card" that 'God must therefore be understood outside of our time scale, taking in all past, present and future that we can translate this: "I will always be what they are." It is the key to a mystery, the mystery man, where the name ineffable dance in the bush that continues to burn. Even
'ehyeh is like a Tetragrammaton YHWH that is written in the same way that all eight letters are added to signify the whole mystery of revelation to Mosheh, and through him to Israel and all humanity. Eight letters which contained the new creation, life in fact "God is not dead, but of the living God" (Lk 20,38), what is required 'future consistency to the religious life is to live the logic of the resurrection, which is a dramatic clash between the "God of the dead" and the "God of the living."
is the logic of the Kingdom where there is life, communion, where there's activity, God is present and makes you feel inside you that voice that whispers softly, "I am and will always, I'll be with you at all moment of your life and your story, I'll be with you as well death and I will not miss anything of what I promised and I gave you with your life. As long as you trust me and watch my word faithfully. "
This path of resurrection, is not tied exclusively to the New Testament, but the whole of Revelation. In fact, it is a fundamental way since God revealed himself as' God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob "(see Exodus 3:6).
is a journey of hope made by our forebears in faith. It is a journey of resurrection and if Moses called God in this way and why these great men have placed their hope, their trust completely in God, and are now living with Him and with Him and through Him and this is because "God is not God of the dead but of the living: for all live to him. "
From this moment God is not the most common 'Elohim known to the patriarchs by the name of' El Shaddai (Exodus 6:3), the El of the Mountain, He Who Himself is enough to say the rabbis, the almighty source of all fertility.
The 'Elohim is also another (' ehyeh) that you love on the roads of life with each of us and this must be communicated and passed down to all (cf. v. 15), "For those who dare to love most more» (St. Gregory the Great).
question
1. How do you feel in your daily life the triple aspect of God: 1. Extraordinary 2. charming; 3. mysterious?
2. The triple aspect described in one word we call love: Are you convinced / that is the love free from all slavery and that changes the world?
3. Moses, called of God, committed his life to the people in situation of slavery. The call of God in everyone's life, it is always for a mission and a service: so also is taking place in your life?
4. There is still a bush burning without being consumed: Are you ready / to yourself to discover what it is and then leave as Mosheh?
prayer
Lord was one day among many, when Moses
the flock in the desert was surprised by your voice
which reveals to you as the God of compassion and tenderness.
Fa 'Lord that I can still hear your revelation and, like Moses, with my answer: "Here I am" to be able to love as you love.
Amen.
actio
In the journey of your life, meditate and bring in your newspaper these words: Fear not ... I am the Lord and walk with you.