Today's readings are Exodus 2.23-322 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Ex.+2.23-3.22 ) and Mark 14.53-72 ( http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Mark+14.53-72 ).
Look closely how the passage in Exodus begins. God knows and cares about the sufferings of his people. He is not too far away to hear and see, he is not too high and mighty to care for the needs of his people. The mighty God cares about our trials and intervenes in the affairs of man to bring his deliverance, to rescue his people, to preserve them for himself.
How does God rescue Israel in Exodus? He comes to Moses and tells him, in effect, "I have heard and I will rescue my people. Go get them." So often we, like Moses, are surprised and even disappointed by God's statement that he will change the world and that we are supposed to get busy. We build this dichotomy and don't know how to function when the Lord breaks down the nice tidy theological walls we have built. Salvation is of the Lord. Now go pray for people to be converted! Salvation is by grace through faith, not of works. Now be baptized to wash your sin away. Nobody comes to the Lord in faith unless the Holy Spirit draws him. So go tell people about the Lord and persuade them to believe. The nice theological walls, categories like grace, faith, and works have broken. And they have broken because the God of the Universe has just come and stepped all over them.
Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, called the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, has come indeed to rescue this lost and dying world from sin, death, and eternal separation from God. He indeed died for the sins of the world. And we are told that he particularly died for those who believe. Now, like Moses, let's get busy about his commands. Believe on the Lord! He is delivering the world all by himself! Now go tell someone.
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