A Biblical Answer to the “god-freedom problem” that I discussed in the last post (go here for that) is the burning bush.
When Moses asks God for His name in Exodus 3, Moses is asking “what kind of being” God is. Moses wants to put God in categorical terms like the rest of mankind. He thinks that God is a being like us all…
God’s response, Bishop Barron states provocatively, is: “Dumb question, wrong question, I am not a thing in the world… “I am who I am” (Ex 3:14)… I am prior to thought, to language, to being. I AM that which upon the categorical realm depends.”
The burning bush—burning without ever being consumed—is a very appropriate image to signify this inexhaustible divine life that is constantly renewing itself without ever receiving its energy from the outside. God is NOT the supreme being (ens summum in his Latin), but rather ipsum esse subsistens, which means “the sheer act of to be itself.”
The burning bush is ALSO a biblical image of what OUR lives are meant to look like!
Look at the life of any saint. What do you see? The burning bush! They are paradoxically the most surrendered to God’s will and the most free as humans. They are fully possessed by God (on fire) and fully free themselves in their unique personality (but not consumed).
“Moses sees a bush that burns but is not consumed. This is a lovely symbolic expression of the way God relates to the world. The closer God gets, the more we become radiant with his presence. God’s proximity does not mean our destruction or the compromising of our integrity; rather it is the means by which we become fully ourselves.” – Bishop Barron
St. Paul, for example, after his encounter with Christ, stated: “By the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. I have worked harder than any of the others—and yet it was not I but this same grace of God within me” (1 Corinthians 15:10). St. Paul shows the paradoxical nature of how God is not a rival to us but is rather at work perfectly within our freedom. In a certain way, St. Paul became a burning bush. He was able to say, “It is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20). That sounds like a burning bush!
Friends, “the glory of God is YOU fully alive” (St. Irenaeus).
God wants you to be a burning bush and experience the fullness of life that can only come when we participate in God’s divine action in our lives. God is NOT a competitor against us. He is 100% FOR YOU—for your happiness and holiness!
Prodigal Catholic 
Thank you Fr Richard for your very insightful explanation. 🙏