The people of Israel had been wandering around the desert for
three months after having been liberated from their slavery in Egypt. God saw that they needed a real sign of his
presence in their lives, so he told them to sanctify themselves, to wash their
clothes, to prepare for his arrival. He
came to them in dramatic fashion: in the clash of thunder & lightening, in
the blasts of trumpets. Great Mount
Sinai was wrapped in smoke as the Lord appeared to the people in a great
fire.
Wouldn’t we like
such a profound sign from God in our lives?
Don’t we all long for a dramatic sign of his presence? We want the Lord to speak to us in a dramatic
dream or in a loud, clear voice. We want
him to give us a sign, & we often have a very distinct vision of what we
want that sign to be. Yet, so often God does not give us the sign that we
want. He often appears to us in much
more subtle, much less grandiose ways.
He may speak to us in our lives through the beauty of nature, in the
kind gesture of a friend, in the words of good book, in a surprise phone call
from a friend, in a moment of calm & silence in our busy lives. God may be speaking to us in a quiet breeze
when we are looking for an earthquake or a mighty wind. May we open our ears, our eyes, & our
hearts to all the ways God in speaking to us in those common, ordinary moments
of our daily lives.
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