Deus Dicit

Jan 9, 2022    Rev. Jason Micheli

The scriptures are not the historical archive of what the once loquacious God said. In the past. The scriptures are the means through which the Living Lord elects to speak today. To us! Despite the ubiquity of such language in Church, the God of the Bible does not dream. The God of the Bible does. The God of the Bible speaks— his word is his doing in the world. The God of the Bible does not sit by, silent and idle, passively waiting for us to discover him at the center of a labyrinth or seek him at the end of our spiritual endeavors or accept him in answer to an altar call. The God of the Bible is the powerful, partisan deliverer of the poor and the oppressed, at work in the world— ahead of us, apart from us, often in spite of us, killing and making alive with his Word, calling into existence things that do not exist (things such as the prophet Isaiah) and, as the Book of Hebrews puts it, “upholding the universe by his word of power.”