God and Moses come down

Sunday September 16th, Exodus 32: 7 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. 8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, 'These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.' The people were liberated from slavery and brought to the holy mountain. While the leader was absent for a short while they went back to worshiping that which they had made, that which was under their control. God sent Moses down, down out of the mountain. It seems as if God is forever either coming down into the messes we create, or is sending someone down as a messenger to lead us out of those messes. For God, it is always Grace, for God it is always coming down. Our tendency on the other hand is to always try to configure a god we can control. Our calling as the children of God is also to come down. Come down out of our Church towers and self induced righteousness and into the dirty lives of those around us, and in the process, our own dirty lives also. Lives filled with gods created for us to control. And while down there, be messengers of Grace.