journal/MOSES-CHRIST-AND US

GOD'S PLANS for us are always SIMPLE in theory-but difficult to execute

In today's reading-GOD'S PEOPLE COME to Moses whining and complaining about ALL sorts
of tings-MOSES tole them what to do SO that they would not die-KEEP looking at the bronze serpent
that is mounted on the pole and you will LIVE

FOR US-it is a matter of us KEEPING on looking at that man-OUR LORD and SAVIOR hanging on a tree and REMEMBERING what he did for us

LOVE-love-love
FORGIVE-forgive-forgive
AND BE KIND to everyone

SIMPLE in theory but NOT so easy to execute

Dear Lord-it is a GREAT DAY to be ALIVE! in remembering what he did for us and in GOD'S LOVE
for us














WITNESS


8-27-13




MOSES---CHRIST AND US








Moses was tending a flock of sheep
For his father-in-law Jethro
And angel appeared to him on Mount Horeb


Moses looks over and sees a bush
A bush on fire
Yet not burning up
A strange site indeed


As Moses
Goes closer to the bush
He hears a voice,
“Moses, Moses”


Moses says,
“Here I am”
And God says,
“Do not come any closer
Take off your sandals
You are standing on Holy Ground” Exodus 3:5


Moses is afraid to look
Afraid to see the face of God


Who can blame him
Wouldn’t you be afraid to look
Wouldn’t I


God proceeds
To tell Moses
To go to the Pharaoh of Egypt
And tell him
That he Moses,
Is to lead the Israeli people
Out of Egypt


Moses is terrified
He asks God
What he is to tell the Israeli people


God says to tell them,
“I AM has sent me to you
The Lord the God of your Fathers
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob


Has sent me to you
This is my name forever
The name by which
I am to be remembered
From generation to generation” Exodus 3:14-16


Fast forward to 2 or 3,000 years later
And we find Jesus
Arriving from Galilee
At the river Jordan
To be baptized


As Jesus comes up
Out of the water
The spirit of God
Comes down upon him
Like a dove and lightening


I am
The Light of he World
I am
The Resurrection and the Light
I am
The vine
And you are the branches
He who believes in me---shall never die


Are we
Really his branches
Are we really
Open to the Lord’s calling


Live in me
So I can live in you


This is the ecstasy of our religion
This is our calling
The calling of
The power to believe


The calling
To live our life out
On his Word


The calling
To be smaller more miniature versions
Of Jesus
In today’s world


The calling
To live out our life
Not our way---but God’s way


The challenge
To keep believing
Without seeing


We are to believe
As Saint Paul said,
“No longer I
But Christ who lives in me”


To learn
That we really
Are to live our life
For the God whose name is


I AM


Robert P. Wallman
8-17-11




Ps WITNESS 8-27-13




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