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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