Monday, July 8, 2013

Redeemer Devotions for July 8, 2013

This week: God as radical revelation. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com]Radical revelation is a term used by Brian McClaren. I thought it would be a few

good words to add to this long running look at God. God as radical revelation is

both grand and common. It is always grand in that God reveals God's self. It is

common in that the grandness of God is revealed in that which is common. Did you

ever notice that all the grand revelation stories of God have to do with stuff

that takes place among the people God is wooing as God's own. Moses may see a burning

bush but it was Moses who become the one who brings the vision of what will happen

to God's people in Egypt. God as radical revelation is when this God who 'will be

who God will be' brings to life a boldness and a firmness and a liberating presence

in the form of Moses - a guy not too good with words. God as radical revelation

comes as real people are set free from oppression and war and violence through the

simple means of people who are persistently resisting all those powers because God

has promised to make a new life. So is the revelation of another time and another

place? Well, yes and no. The 'yes' part is that God is revealing a life that people

are invited to enter and take up as their own. The 'no' part is that there is no

'other place' outside of the realm of our human existence that will be the new

life. New life and its radical nature comes as a promise. We are invited to step

into it and see where we go by the grace of God.



O God of love and new life, when we are being consumed by the ordinary stuff around

us and it seems to be running our lives, you, O God, call us to lift up our heads

and take a look at the life you promise all of us even as we thin we are being run

over by the powers of the day. Blessed are you. Amen.

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