The young woman preacher found herself in something of the same situation that Moses was in when he was the intermediary between God and the Israelites. A woman, whose husband had recently died, asked her, "Will our loved ones remember us after they die and are with Jesus?" She answered, "I don’t know." She had not faced that question, that part of the Easter mystery before. But she could - and did - say, "I don’t know if the dead will remember us, but I do know that our Lord remembers us." And she added, implicitly, "That’s enough for me." It turned out, in later conversation, that the woman she was talking to was her mother, as they sat at a kitchen table the night after her father’s funeral. Her mother desperately needed some assurance to see her through this time of sorrow and mourning…
The Abiding Presence
Exodus 33:12-23
Exodus 33:12-23
Sermon
CSS Publishing, Lima, Ohio,