I AM

Receiving a word from God has this inevitably irrational quality. No one will deny what they don’t know. Few will actually say, “No, you didn’t hear from God.” But they will all think it. And, I suppose, even when someone hears from God – even as they are hearing it – they realize in the back of their mind that no one is going to believe this. Moses knows that this is going to change the way he functions in his network of relationships.

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob cares about the children of Israel. His project continues. The covenant family will now become the covenant nation. They will see it in their own time as the pursuit of blessing for themselves. They will know success and failure.

But in the end, the covenant nation will be scattered like salt in a dough. It will inform and season all of human culture. No more the private God of a few fortunate.