The Ninth Sunday After Pentecost

The Emerging Church
 

Is the God we meet inside our religious structures is too small to be God

for the world we now inhabit?  Can we create a new image for the church

that in turn will give birth to a second look from those who long ago moved away from Christianity altogether? 

This week the OT reading is a perfect beginning for us as we examine ourselves...in light of the life of Moses - It was obviously "divine order" that he be saved from hands of the Egyptians and his own mother was "unknowingly"  called upon to be his nurse.  We learn a great lesson from this reading--we constantly deceive ourselves into believing that "we" can control the lives and destiny of other people, nations and civilizations. 

It is simply not so. There is a divine and cosmic order in place - it always has been and always will be.   "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end". Amen 

The Old Testament Reading  Exodus 1-8,2-10
 

Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. His sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.

The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him, "This must be one of the Hebrews' children," she said. Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?" Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes." So the girl went and called the child's mother. Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed it. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, "because," she said, "I drew him out of the water."