Today we have two seemingly different stories from the Scriptures. However, I submit that there is a common lesson in both stories.
That common lesson is that God’s ways are not our ways. God sees the world very differently than we often do, and God reacts to the needs of the people in ways that are very unpredictable … not necessarily what we might want or expect to happen. The take-away lesson from today’s sermon is therefore that we might think more about seeing the world as God sees. We might think more about trying to solve problems with a wider view and with more openness than we often do.
Our first reading from Exodus gives us a picture of the newly freed Hebrew slaves … safe from Pharaoh’s chariots but wandering in the wilderness where there is no obvious source of food or drink. In America most of us are so affluent that we have no idea what it means to be hungry … I mean, really, hungry! Read more…