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Sinai smokes like a furnace, the mountain trembles, a trumpet grows louder and louder, and then God speaks ten sentences that have shaped more of human civilization than any others ever spoken.
The people beg for distance. Do not have God speak to us or we will die. Today, hear the same words up close, from the God who spoke them so His people could live.
Put the two mountains side by side. At Sinai, God's holiness thunders and the people beg Him to keep His distance. In Jerusalem, that same holy God stands in the temple courts weeping like a mother hen over chicks who will not come. The commandments and the tears come from one heart.
The law was never cold; it was a Father fencing the cliff edges, life, marriage, truth, rest, so His children could flourish. And the woes were never contempt; they were grief over religion that polished cups and starved souls. Obey the ten this week as they were given: not to keep God away, but because He came near.