No mountaintop

After Exodus 6:1-8

We’re looking at this

in the wrong way.

He’s not on the mountaintop;

we don’t find our way

to the top

by different paths.

It’s not about finding him

there, traveling

our different trails.

He came down from

the mountaintop,

and found us.

He didn’t wait as we

traveled our roads,

looking for him.

He came down,

found us, 

lived with us, 

touched us.

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Not the natural order

After Exodus 6:1-8

It’s not the natural order.

no matter what the theorists

and philosophers say;

you have

no betters

except me.

Nothing stands

between us.

The natural order is

I am

you are

I am the

you are my

I am the Lord

you are my beloved

I am the Lord your

you are my beloved people

I am the Lord your God

and I will deliver

you.

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Not a contract

After Exodus 6:1-8

Not a contract,

not an I do this

and you do that.

Instead, a statement:

you will see what

I will do.

Instead: a promise

without contingency.

I will bring you out.

I will deliver you.

I will take you.

I will be.

I will give.

Instead: a promise

forever. 

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