Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
The Lord commanded Moses to remove his shoes not because dirt clung to the ground itself, but because God's presence made it holy for that moment. If Moses needed such urgent reminders to fix his mind on Heaven and forget earthly things, how much more do we, who are a hundred times slower, require the same shock to our conscience? Now that God shows Himself to us fully in Christ, we must strip ourselves entirely bare of ourselves, not merely our shoes.
AI summary
After forty years buried in obscurity, Moses, now eighty and seemingly past service, enters his calling through a vision in the wilderness. This teaches that God confines Himself to no place; He met Moses in a remote desert as readily as in a temple. The bush burning unconsumed prefigures Israel in Egypt's furnace, afflicted yet unbroken, and perhaps foreshadows Christ: divinity manifest in flesh.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 7:30-41
Then said the Lord to him,.... To Moses, who through curiosity had made too near an approach: put off thy shoes from thy feet; in token of humility, obedience, and reverence: for the place where thou standest is holy ground; not really, but relatively, on account of the divine presence in it, and only so long as that continued.