01/18/2021 – Day 247 – Exodus 13 – 16 // “Biblical faith does not call people to crucify their intellect or take irrational leaps of faith in the darkness with the hope that Christ will catch us. Rather we are called to leap out of the darkness and into the light…True faith involves trusting in the evidence that God has amply provided in and through His Word.” Quote by R.C. Sproul. (he is missed but he is home!)
And how much evidence did the covenant people in the desert witness but still refused to obey? Moses intercedes for the people in chapter 14, actually “changing God’s mind” so to speak, who was just about to send pesilence on them and completely disinherit them. And you know what, I suspect Moses came to regret presenting that argument more than once from that point forward!
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there would be no hell.” C.S. Lewis
Verse 16:46 – Moses pleads for his brother Aaron to offer atonement for the people without haste, for “the wrath has gone out from the Lord.”
My bible footnote on that verse: “Wrath, the Bible tells us, is an attribute of God. The modern habit throughout the Christian church is to play this subject down. Those who still believe in the wrath of God (not all do) say little about it; perhaps they don’t think much about it. To an age that has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-wil, the church mumbles on about God’s kindness, but says virtually nothing about His judgment… The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become tatoo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the subject.” J.L. Packer
Soli Deo Gloria!