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Mount Sinai
Moussa, 2013

Treasure Your Mount Sinai

One of the gifts of spending time on the road is the opportunity to think about—ponder the future. We have just returned from a trip covering over 3000 kilometers through our province—plenty of time to explore the future.

This week I was reminded of the events of Mount Sinai—the account in Exodus of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments. One could believe it was a short trip for Moses to ascend the mountain, pick up the ten commandments and simply return down the mountain to deliver the tablets to the people of Israel.

Common knowledge would suggest a very different picture. We are not told of the time lapse between Moses leaving the camp and his return. We do know that the people had plenty of time to become restless and question if Moses would even return.

My “Google Search” provides the following:

“Mount Sinai has great Biblical significance:

    • It is the mountain where God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses, symbolizing the covenant between God and the Israelites.

    • It represents divine revelation and encounter with God.

    • It is a sacred location where the Israelites had direct encounters with God.

    • According to Jewish tradition, the entire corpus of biblical text and interpretation was revealed to Moses on Sinai.

    • It symbolizes the encounter between humanity and the divine, when God’s laws were revealed to guide His people.”

With this list of great significance in reference to Mount Sinai, let us ask the following questions of our own faith journeys:

  • Where is the place “I” received a sense of covenant between God and myself in providing direction for my life?

  • Where have those moments of divine revelation occurred in my life-moments and places of divine intervention?

These thoughts may give us elements of our story—a framework to consider the Divine in our lives in moments which recur over and over throughout our lives.

Let us treasure those “Mount Sinai” moments.

Blessings, 
Archdeacon Brian+

 

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