O Blessed Lord, and Ruler of the House of Israel

O Blessed Lord, and Ruler of the House of Israel,
Who to Moses in the flame of the burning bush appeared
And to him the Law in Sinai did give—
Come to redeem us by an outstretched arm.

Redemption is rooted in the very law of creation. God’s redemption is one that comes to us as a defiance of the rulers of this world and all the powers that defy God—sin, death, and the devil. God gives us a law modeled on the very order of creation—an order that demands life at its fullest.

When our world is dismal and full of hopelessness, when we find ourselves deep in the foreign land of sin’s captivity—there God breaks into our life with all the glory of a blazing fire. God breaks into our lives and demands redemption for us and for the natural order of things with a word that rings as clear as any legal decree. This word is handed down to us from on high as with a clarity that is the order the universe.


This is our God, the God who first spoke a word of being and gave order to all existence. The God who spoke to Moses from a fire that refused to destroy, but inspired him to deliver the Israelite people to a land of milk and honey, a land of abundant life. The God who promises us that this world’s order of death and disease, of brokenness and imperfection do not, cannot have the last word. For our God has broken into our story and brings us redemption with all the force of a mighty outstretched arm against all those forces that would defy the order of abundant life—in the here and now and for all eternity.

Our God’s law of life kills this world’s law of sin.

O Blessed Lord, and Ruler of the House of Israel,
Who to Moses in the flame of the burning bush appeared
And to him the Law in Sinai did give—
Come to redeem us by an outstretched arm.

Read:
Exodus 3
Galatians 6

-DS