Emphasis Preaching Journal

Sometimes our faith seems a strange paradox, as this description of God at work among the people of Israel in Egypt:

For by the same means by which thou didst punish our enemies thou didst call us to thyself and glorify us. For in secret the holy children of good men offered sacrifices, and with one accord agreed to the divine law, that the saints would share alike the same things, both blessings and dangers.

God comes to us, as to them, in positive and negative ways alike.