Fear Not Change (Exodus 3:1-7, 13-14)

Human beings are highly resistant to change. Change often involves embracing an unknown future and often, we fear what we don’t know and therefore, we fear change. When we fear change it becomes hard to move on from a miserable job or end an unhealthy relationship. We refuse to loosen our control over our children as they grow.

God appears to Moses in the burning bush as change itself. A fire—the scientific embodiment of matter changing forms. God is inviting Moses to change, to leave the comforts of his home and embrace what God has sent before him to save his people from the rule of Pharaoh. But he doesn’t have to do it alone. God promises to be with him just as Jesus promises to be with us.

Change is one of the constants of our world and it’s always been part of Christ’s invitation: to leave our nets, to leave our comforts, to leave what we know and to change so that we become more like Jesus.