I just love how God introduces himself as a jealous God to Moses. You can’t know all about him and live. The sight was too glorious and even the words couldn’t describe it completely.
He chose one group of people to woo with abandon and all knowledge about him from the outset. A vision and words from behind the back of the Lord is a treasure. That was the Old Testament’s hidden treasure. The sacrifice that attones for sin had not yet completely been accomplished. God is too holy to fellowship with sin and we reneged on the original agreement of fellowship. Couldn’t live up to the bargain, we died. Jesus always had the plan, but we couldn’t see it.
That spectacular sight had a afterglow on Moses’ face. It was relatively shortlived. The effects of his encounter was eternal, though.
God’s eternal plan is exposing his personal loving expression to an ungrateful and incapable wretched race. His longing and expressions of wooing are spurned, whether we are aware of His love or whether we are ignorant. Still he lends us breath and life. He still gifts us with much and many.
He lets us pursue many and much as if they were gods. All the while he draws and pursues us. We break his heart and he chases us in love.
His bride, the church, is learning to love him, as he desires. Evangelical obedience is God’s plan for his church. It is what is best for us in the world we live in. There are curses on the land and in the spirit world that we are reversing in our obedience to him. Righteousness exalts a nation… How impossible that must have sounded to the Old Testament mind. It must be the sacrifices that make us righteousness, would have been the reasoning to that in their understanding. Jesus gives us the ability to learn and grow up into Christ in all things. Amazing Grace!
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