“This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years. This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.’ This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt, saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us.As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’
Refusal to obey is disobedience. And it was based on? A decision to disobey rather than to obey. Let me emphasize: disobedience is a conscious act, concluding that the rewards of obedience and the consequences of disobedience do not outweigh the satisfaction of self-defining my own gods.
Today's readings in the Psalms:
Morning: Psalm 107
Mid-day: 119:57-64
Evening: Psalm 33
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