The Lord spoke to you out of the fire. (Deuteronomy 4:12)
Though “God” does not make an appearance in the Constitution; our Declaration of Independence that precedes the Constitution and without which we would not have a Constitution; does speak of God: “The Laws of Nature, and of Nature’s God.” And, that humans receive their “unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” by “their Creator.” The Declaration concludes by offering up the just cause of our revolution “to the Supreme Judge of the world.”
The Constitution protects our freedom to worship “Nature’s God” as we choose—as our Lord who speaks out of the fire. Something like the “tongues of fire that seemed to rest” on those first worshipers at Pentecost (Ac 2:3). There’s something fiery about the God we worship. Maybe that’s why I spend my mornings around the fire pit.
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