On this occasion, God identified Moses as the one who was to lead God's people from slavery in Egypt to freedom in the Promised Land. Now, looking at this story from a different angle, we can make another point about fire - and that is that fire is an agent of change. Whenever there is fire, there also is change involved. This happens in people's lives - for instance, if a fire destroys a home or some property. Also, scientists tell us about the changes that happen in physical matter because of fire.
Fire changes things.
In several ways, this biblical story is about change. As we imagined, perhaps Moses approached the fire to change from being cold to being warm. Fire puts off heat. It changes temperature. But in this particular story, the most significant change happened in the person of Moses himself.