Thursday in the Fourth Week of Lent
The Lord said to Moses, "I have seen this people, how stiff-necked they are. Now let me alone, so that my wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them; and of you I will make a great nation.
One of the overlooked aspects of Judaism and Christianity is how our relationship with God permits us a broad amount of passionate interaction. Sometimes contrary interaction.
Sometimes outright defiance.
Today’s Older Testament lesson is one of the examples of what could be called, for lack of a better term, “positive defiance” of God.
In Genesis, we have…