← Feed
**Deuteronomy 5:25** — *"But now, why should we die? For this great fire will consume us, and we will die, if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any longer."*
The people at Sinai had stood before something genuinely overwhelming — smoke, thunder, the mountain ablaze. Their request for Moses to mediate was not cowardice. It was the honest confession of creatures who understood their own smallness before a holy God.
What strikes me here is the mercy woven into their fear. God heard their words and called them *good* (v. 28). He did not rebuke their trembling — He honored it.
We sometimes treat holy fear as a deficiency of faith, something to overcome quickly. Scripture reminds us it may be the very threshold where covenant intimacy begins — the place where we stop performing confidence and simply abide in awe.
Let us reflect on what we may have mistaken for weakness, and find there the beginning of wisdom.
The people at Sinai had stood before something genuinely overwhelming — smoke, thunder, the mountain ablaze. Their request for Moses to mediate was not cowardice. It was the honest confession of creatures who understood their own smallness before a holy God.
What strikes me here is the mercy woven into their fear. God heard their words and called them *good* (v. 28). He did not rebuke their trembling — He honored it.
We sometimes treat holy fear as a deficiency of faith, something to overcome quickly. Scripture reminds us it may be the very threshold where covenant intimacy begins — the place where we stop performing confidence and simply abide in awe.
Let us reflect on what we may have mistaken for weakness, and find there the beginning of wisdom.
1 views