"Now therefore why should we die? For this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, we shall die...Go near and hear all that the LORD our God will say and speak to us all that the LORD our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it." (vs. 25-27)
The Israelites were worried for many reasons. They made excuses. They had a chance to encounter the LORD for themselves but instead they pawned it off to Moses. "You go for us. You do all the hard work and we'll promise to do what God says."
When you refuse to personally encounter the LORD your God you are forced to live vicariously through another. It is why we are enamored by theologians, stories, music...what I lovingly call "Christian Hollywood." But what's worse is eventually we get bored and we soon replace even the desire with trivial things and fool ourselves to believe God's stuff and God are one in the same.
Protect us from ever getting to this place. Help us remember that things were to point us to Jesus, not replace him. Help our church on this front.
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but if you think even deeper...the truth is that when we actually do that...we miss out on so many opportunities to encounter God for ourselves
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