The ways of God are strange. They are unfathomable. They are totally peculiar.
Today’s readings reveal how God chose Moses to be his man to free his people from the slavery of Pharaoh and to reveal his wisdom and ways to the simple and unlearned.
Moses flees from Pharaoh who is trying to kill him. He escapes to Midian and there marries one of the daughters of Jethro and takes care of his sheep. It is here as he pastures the sheep that God calls him through the burning bush to tell that he has heard the pleas of his suffering people and decided to send Moses to Egypt to free the people from slavery.
He is sent back to Pharaoh whom he shuddered to meet, and to free the people of Israel from Egypt. How strange are the ways of God! God tells him that he will be with him and be the witness that he sent him.
In the Gospel, God has hidden his wisdom and ways to the wise and the learned to reveal them to the simple. Jesus reveals his Father and his ways to the simple because that is his choice.
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