“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children’s children—how on the day that you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’ And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom. Then the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You heard the sound of words, but saw no form; there was only a voice. And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments, and he wrote them on two tablets of stone. And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, that you might do them in the land that you are going over to possess. (Deuteronomy 4:9-14 ESV)
Are these the pictures that pop in your mind from the awesome description above? They are magnificent pictures… The trees in the top picture are anywhere from 50-60 feet tall and the flames are at least twice the height of the trees! Fire reaching up into the heavens!
But these pictures do not eve begin to depict the scene we would have seen if we were a part of the Israelites that gathered at the foot of the mountain to hear God speak.
The dis embodied voice that probably trembled the mountain as the fire burned and the smoke billowed…
This is the scene we are suppose to remember to help us recall the covenant that was made with us. And as parents we are suppose to help our children remember this event that they might not have been at. So that they will know the fear of the Lord and keep his commandments. So that we would fear the Lord…
Awesome power needs us to keep reverent fear. God needs to be feared not for what He will do, but what He can do. And we need to love the other, as he first loved us, not because of what we will get, but because we have a reverent fear of the Lord our God…
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