Thursday, March 18
Exodus 32:7-14. Moses implored God, saying: “Why, O God, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt? Let your blazing wrath die down…Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac and Israel…” And so God relented in the punishment God had threatened to inflict on the people.
| I think it is
possible to say that in spite of all its extraordinary variety, the Bible is
held together by having a single plot. It is one that can be simply stated:
God creates the world; the world gets lost; God seeks to restore the world
to the glory for which God created it. - The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction, Frederick Buechner, (San Francisco: Harper, 1992), p. 44 |
