Thursday  May 28 VOICE OF GOD

Faith – VOX  DEI – LIGHT; seeing divine word |

God made sure his revelation could be associated with fire, and admittedly all light comes from fire, and in nature light comes from the stars and more particularly from the sun in our galaxy.  Fire and words go naturally together.  Jeremiah (20:9) and every believer know it.

“Then the Lord spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form–there was only a voice. (Deuteronomy 4:12)

Hope – VOX DEI – LIGHT; trusting utterance |

When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him with thunder. (Exodus 19:19)

There was no hope (tiqvah) in the Pentateuch: it is only in the case of Rahab of Jericho that we see hope for the hopeless rising

Love – VOX DEI – LIGHT; embracing echo |

He who is the outshining of God (Hebrews 1::3) is sure to generate a great deal of heat as he brings light into our darkness. Consequently we find ourselves shrinking away from the consuming fire of God even as he hangs on the cross, determined to love his creation.  That’s a lot of heat echoing from creation itself, reverberating through all the millennia down to the first century in Palestine.

Death – VOX DEI – LIGHT; becoming final word |

It has been a curiosity that seeing God was thought to lead to death, but it was also deadly to hear God’s voice.

He further said, “You cannot see My face, for mankind shall not see Me and live!” (Exodus 33:20)

‘Now then, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any longer, then we will die! (Deuteronomy 5:25)

Surely we can see that death and violence spread and magnified in influence to the extent that God sent a flood to make an end and a fresh start. The flood was not the final judgment.

“You said, ‘Behold, the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with mankind, yet he lives. (Deuteronomy 5:24)

There are things from the voice of god, from the eternal funder, that need not be written, they are left to be discovered by each individual (Revelation 10:4)