Exodus 19 1 Exactly two months after the Israelites left Egypt, they arrived in the wilderness of Sinai. 2 … and set up camp there at the base of Mount Sinai.
16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, as well as a thick cloud on the mountain, and a blast of a trumpet so loud that all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God. They took their stand at the foot of the mountain. 18 Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, while the whole mountain shook violently. 19 As the blast of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and God would answer him in thunder.
This is another of my favorite passages of scripture. And I’m going to ask you to read it again. Read it out loud. Read it with your best James Earl Jones voice. (You know him, right? He was the voice of Mufasa in the Lion King. He was the voice of Darth Vader. You tremble when you hear his voice. And we need tremble when we read this passage. Go ahead … read it again!
That’s my devotional for today. God is big. He is awesome. Holy. Majestic. Eternal. He reigns over the skies. His voice is as mighty as the thunder.
And … we should … “tremble, tremble, tremble.”
And all this begs a question: After God did ten signs (ten plagues that freed them from Pharaoh … and then parted the Red Sea … after God appeared on the top of Sinai and spoke in thunder … how in the world could they make a gold calf to worship, after Moses ascended the mountain and didn’t come back immediately?
Could it be that they wanted a God they could control?
In Christ’s Love,
a guy who wants a God
who is bigger and grander
and more loving than me
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