My People - Your God

My People – Your God
EXODUS 6: 2- 7: 13

I am discussing their wedding with a young couple in my student Bible-study group. The wedding is a lovely thing to be involved in, and not only because it will happen within sight of the beach but because it brings home to me as a Brit one of those quaint features of U.S. culture: people devise their own marriage service as if they were the first people who ever got married. When they are reinventing the wheel, however, a couple will always include a mutual commitment: “Will you take this man as your husband? Will you take this woman as your wife?” There is an analogy between the marriage relationship and the relationship between us and God. There are limits to the analogy, in that there is a hierarchical aspect to our relationship with God that is not present in the marriage relationship as God designed it, but both are characterized by mutuality. That mutuality is seen, for example, in God’s self-giving to us and ours to God, God’s self-surrender to us and ours to God, God’s commitment to us and ours to God...