The Christian church tradition associates the ark in the Noah story with the church. Like the ark, "in" the church we are saved from death. Seeing the similarities between the Noah and Moses stories, I was considering the Moses story from the perspective of the basket he is placed into as the church. The church, in this story, is that vessel, crafted carefully by deeply loving hands with those materials which happened to be available, to deliver the smallest and most helpless of humans - a baby. And in so doing, this vessel becomes an instrument of salvation for many, many, many more.
What if our churches viewed themselves as Moses' basket? Thanks be to God for his deeply loving hands.
1 comment:
Truly.
Very interesting.
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