Scripture: Exodus 3:10
[God said to Moses] “So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
 
Thought for the Day: Here’s a perfect example of the way faith and work go hand in hand. Moses’ faith in God is deep enough to hear God speak, and what does God say? “Moses, go do this work for me.” Real faith is not about doctrines and creeds and confessions that Jesus is God’s only son (which completely misrepresents that 1^st Century political statement). We don’t need to turn God into Zeus and Jesus into a demigod. Jesus was a person of deep faith who, like Moses, heard the voice of God and took action. This is the call of all people who claim faith in God: to listen deeply for the intimate voice of God that resides, slumbering within us all, just waiting to become active, so we too will become active voices, hands, and feet of change in a world crying out for help.
 
Faith turns us into a peaceful people, willing to sacrifice for the good of the world. Faithful people embrace universal healthcare and peace, free education for all God’s children, marriage equality for all God’s children, and love for all God’s children, whether called Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu, or atheist. We forget that religion is a human-made construct, not a revelation from God, and we fight over our human ideas about God in the most ridiculous and unfaithful fashion.

If we are faithful, then we can only be active forces for love. Anything else is simply a lie.
 
Prayer: Lift my voice above the din of the “faithful” who abuse Your name to hate, kill, and exclude. Use my hands to create a new world where everyone is treated equally, and has equal access to healthcare, education, marriage, and love. Amen.