After spending 40 years in Median
as a shepherd, which was a time of deconstructing the ego that was developed as
a Prince of Egypt, Moses goes on a journey to ‘the far side of the wilderness’
and arrives at Horeb, the mountain of God. Here he would finally be introduced
to Him-Self.
Horeb represents the place where
our journey of seeking ends and the answer to all questions pertaining to life
and godliness are answered. It is the place to which we are all called and where
we are set free from our self-imposed slavery. Here we are able to worship God
in the highest and where the rivers of living water flow. Here, the Light of
the 'burning bush' reveals that the only answer to the ancient question, “Who am
I” is, “I AM THAT I AM”.
In the ‘burning bush’ we find the
oneness of God and Man. The fire is within the bush but they are not two as
the fire never consumes the bush – it is not fire and bush, but a ‘burning bush’
– One identity, One ‘I’. It is holy (whole, perfect) ground. “On that day you
will know that I AM in my Father, you are in me and I AM in you”. ‘That day’ is
our Horeb.
God is the only ‘I’ that there
is, the One Indivisible Self in whom we all exist. The ‘ego-I’ that Moses had created
(which we all have done) was false and therefore not real. However, it is stubborn and will not
easily let us go. The only way is Christ, our rod and our staff. The Christ-Way
is the absolute identification with God – “I and my Father are One”. It
declares that we are the I AM-Self, the God-Self, the Christ-Self, the True-Self.
There is no other self in Reality. We need to know ourselves as God knows us – as Him-Self.
Jesus Christ, the Son of the
Father is our True identity. For many though, climbing the heights of Horeb may
seem like a step too far and that camping at the base of Mount Sinai, the place
of law and separation may seem more palatable, but the Voice of Love will
forever be calling your name from within, until you respond, "Here I AM".
יהוה
Exodus 3:1-14
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 wilderness and
came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the
angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw
that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go
over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within
the bush, “Moses! Moses!”And Moses said,
“Here I am.”
5 “Do not come any closer,” God
said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy
ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God
of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At
this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I
have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned
about their suffering. 8 So
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring
them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with
milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,
Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me,
and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you
to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I
that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12 And God said, “I will be with you.
And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have
brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”
13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go
to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to
you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I am that I am. This is what you are to say to
the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me
to you.’”
