Podcast: Play in new window Download. Subscribe: RSS More. Well, here we are. Another week β another place of worship! Scripture is filled with great journeys. The great journey of the Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. The journey of the wise men to see Jesus. It seems that God loves to invite us to make journeys. Because through the journey God teaches us, forms us, invites us to grow and change into the person God longs for us to be. To become fully who we were created to be.
So no wonder the Christian faith has, at heart, never been just a body of doctrine or dogma to be received, but rather an invitation to take up the tent pegs, and to set out on a journey. Come, leave everything behind. Take up your cross and follow me. Follow me.
But it is a dangerous journey because if you follow faithfully you will surely meet God. And that can be so dangerous that it can turn your life upside down, as it did to Paul on the road to Damascus, and as it did to Moses in our Old Testament reading this morning. As you know, we were hoping to meet in the chapel today.
It still has some scaffolding, and the floor is covered with a rather uneven, slightly unsafe surface. Even so, we were planning to put up a sign at the entrance to warn everyone to walk carefully.
Moses would know all about that. Moses, who had fled for his life from Egypt, made that frightened journey to the land of Midian.
