Exodus 2: To Know . . . and to Act
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
God saw the people and knew . . .
What do we chose to bring to God? What do we hold back When God answers our prayer, are we ready to act upon the result of our petition? When we hesitate to act in God’s name and good will, what is it we fear? Has not God given us the desire of our hearts? Are we afraid that now suddenly God will abandon us? Knowing that God knows all and accompanies us always, what actions do we fear taking as we move forward? And
As we continue our Lenten journey of examination and questions, we look at the story of Moses’ birth, and we reflect upon the answers to prayer that God enacted through this one man’s life.
God saw the people and knew . . .
In DAILY REFLECTIONS FOR LENT: NOT BY BREAD ALONE for Tuesday, February 23, Jay Cormier asks: What prayer are you willing to work for? His question is this: When we perceive an unjust situation – whether it be our own or someone else’s – do we ask for God’s help for the remediation of the injustice? And when we do, are we willing to take the action God will ask us to take?
God sees the people and God knows . . .
We have spent time with the Exodus story in our Noontimes and so may appear to hold nothing new. But what may be new to us is the connection between asking for help and having to act as a consequence of receiving this help. God has many ways of knowing the people, and with this full knowledge, God chooses to act. Once God does, the people are called to respond to a new summons for a different kind of faith journey, a journey that requires their fidelity and perseverance. The people cry out, a hero is born, salvation arrives, yet there is work to be done as a result of this salvation.
God sees the people and God knows . . .
We might meditate on the following today. We cry out, a solution arrives. We rejoice in our salvation. We enter into the work that will transform us.
God sees the people and God knows . . .
Jay Cormier offers the following prayer: Father in heaven, do not let us confine our prayer to words and rituals alone. Open our hearts and inspire our spirits to work and sacrifice for the hopes and dreams we ask of you, you who are the Giver and Sustainer of all life.
And the people say . . . Amen.
God sees us and God knows . . .
Meeks, Wayne A., Gen. Ed. HARPERCOLLINS STUDY BIBLE (NRSV). New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1989. Print. (Meeks)
Adapted from a reflection written on February 24, 2010.
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