The fundamental revelation is that God is fire.
March 10, 2010
After Moses had met the living God, he had everything still to learn about him. The day before the divine appearance in the desert, neither he nor anybody else knew anything, or very little, about God; they did not even know God’s name. However, God immediately sent Moses out on that tremendous exodus venture and gave him the assurance that “I am who I am” (Ex 3:14). Meeting God is all we need to get us going. Moses would find out who God was as he went along, seeing him at work – and that is our experience today. What God does is what he is; he never acts out of character. And the fundamental...