On this first Tuesday of Lent in his Lent devotional A Way Other than Our Own, Walter Brueggemann speaks of a way of walking with God "on terms other than our own."
Exodus 33:19: God is gracious and merciful towards Israel after their turning to worship a false idol in the wilderness; but as God and Moses negotiate the terms for the future, it becomes clear that "the future is on God's terms...Israel is expected to give up all of its pet projects of religion, all of its favorite convictions, all of its conservative ideology, all of its liberal propensity, to notice that God has not signed on for any of our easy preferences...
"We people of faith do not have life on our terms. And we, like Moses, have to decide that we will walk into the future on terms other than our own."
This is as true for God's people today as it was for Moses and Israel; may we have the grace to do the hard work of discovering God's terms rather than settle for our "easy preferences".
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