Week Two

What are we packing?

The essentials we need to pack.

As we Get Packing with God what are the essentials we want to hold on to? What really matters? We begin this week with Moses taking hope and confidence at the Burning Bush, and end it at the point of departure with the Hebrews hurriedly preparing for the first Passover. In both of these moments and in our own lives there is a mix of the pragmatic and the wondrous — the practical and the incredible.

SEEDS TO SOW: Below we begin our reflections thinking about Moses’s curiosity. What role does curiosity have in the Bible and in our day-to-day faith?

Read Exodus 3: 1-6

Taking an interest.

Moses carries his curiosity with him, he sees the light and goes to investigate.

What are we we taking an interest in today? What is drawing us to investigate? How can we keep our eyes open, like Moses, to catch flickers of the light of God?

Read Exodus 3: 7-20

Taking faith.

Faith — even in the face of oppression and despair — is a shining thread of continuity throughout the Bible. Fear and evil will not win out, the eternal love of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, has already won and is being realised through the working of God’s Kingdom!

What do you make of Moses’s frank honesty and vulnerability in verse 11 (and throughout) when speaking to God here? How does vulnerability and doubt affect our daily faith?

Read Exodus 3: 21-22

Taking gifts...

This foreshadowing of what will come later is a strange coda to this encounter. As we look to Get Packing with God perhaps these precious items can represent for us the things we can take with us out of difficult situations and carry into our new life.

As we get packing with God we do not go empty handed. What are the resources we carry as a community? What have we brought from our past that we can use to bless others?

Looking at this whole chapter, what did you learn about our God of love?