A Complicated Relationship
by Keith Brenton
05/08/2008 - Our relationship with God is complicated. While it can be intimate as a parent's relationship with a child, there is also a sense in which God's holiness inspires an awe and a kind of distance that patriarchs respected - and that the Lord commanded:
"Then he said to Moses, 'Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance, but Moses alone is to approach the LORD; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him.' "
So it might be wise to be wary of trying to establish a relationship with God that is too "chummy;" too informal; too casual. He is worthy of our praise. And He longs to draw us close to His heart.
"Then he said to Moses, 'Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. You are to worship at a distance, but Moses alone is to approach the LORD; the others must not come near. And the people may not come up with him.' "
So it might be wise to be wary of trying to establish a relationship with God that is too "chummy;" too informal; too casual. He is worthy of our praise. And He longs to draw us close to His heart.
posted at 5/08/2008 06:04:00 AM
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