Wednesday 16 July 2025
We often gloss over the fact that the Lord our God wants to have a deep, personal, intimate relationship with all of us.
Imagine having this kind of deep personal relationship with God our Father. Where He reveals to us His will and how He wants us to lead life to the full in Him through Jesus His Son. How He speaks to us everyday, to our hearts, He awakes us to hear His life giving Word.
There are many complicated things in life, and we can’t always see the truth in them. But through the intimate relationship He wants to have with us, and since He knows us through and through; He wants us to know Him so that we shall know all that is true in the world through Him.
In today’s first reading, we hear of how the Lord our God revealed Himself to Moses in the burning bush. This shows us that His love for us is like a burning fire. It purifies us, helps us to grow, and removes all that is not of Him from us. Yet, it does not harm us. It’s an embracing fire of His love.
Whatever He wills us to do, He will always be with us, walking with us. All He wishes of us is to lead the rest of our brothers and sisters, who are His children, to a deeper worship of Him. This worship should be the right kind, not one where we are irreverent by doing what we want or dressing the way we want. Doing things only the way we want with no thought of Him in our lives.
Instead, we should come before Him with all our hearts, minds, and souls. This way, He can continue to be with us in our journey, that is our pilgrim journey, home to eternal life with Him.
Amen.
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First reading
Exodus 3:1-6,9-12
The burning bush
Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, priest of Midian. He led his flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in the shape of a flame of fire, coming from the middle of a bush. Moses looked; there was the bush blazing but it was not being burnt up. ‘I must go and look at this strange sight,’ Moses said, ‘and see why the bush is not burnt.’
Now the Lord saw him go forward to look, and God called to him from the middle of the bush. ‘Moses, Moses!’ he said. ‘Here I am,’ Moses answered. ‘Come no nearer,’ he said. ‘Take off your shoes, for the place on which you stand is holy ground. I am the God of your fathers,’ he said, ‘the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.’ At this Moses covered his face, afraid to look at God.
And the Lord said, ‘The cry of the sons of Israel has come to me, and I have witnessed the way in which the Egyptians oppress them, so come, I send you to Pharaoh to bring the sons of Israel, my people, out of Egypt.’
Moses said to God, ‘Who am I to go to Pharaoh and bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?’ ‘I shall be with you,’ was the answer ‘and this is the sign by which you shall know that it is I who have sent you… After you have led the people out of Egypt, you are to offer worship to God on this mountain.’
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Gospel
Matthew 11:25-27
You have hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to little children
Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.’
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