The people of God today face choices, and choose in the same ways as those before us. Some, fearful of the presence of God and the glaring light that that shines on our own pettiness and sin, prefer like the Israelites at Sinai to set up an intermediary. They find a church or a denomination or a pastor who will just tell them what to do or think, and they say, “We’ll wait here. You go talk to God, and then come back and tell us what to do.” I understand the appeal of that. We none of us want to be made uncomfortable, to be forced to do hard things, to be pushed into changing. It would be much more pleasant to have someone we trust provide us with simple, easy-to-assemble life instructions. But that doesn’t work.
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