Reflection 2 | Week 4 | Raised Hands
from Northside Christian Church Hosted by Nathan Lawson
The first fight Israel faces after Egypt is against the Amalekites, and you'd expect it to turn on the men with swords. It doesn't. It turns on an old man on a hill, holding his hands up in prayer. But Moses gets tired, the way anyone gets tired, and his arms begin to drop. Exodus doesn't treat this as a failure. It shows us Aaron and Hur climbing the hill, finding Moses a stone to sit on, and standing on either side to hold his hands steady until the sun goes down. This reflection on Exodus 17 sits with what that picture has to say about the people who hold us up, and the ones we're called to hold up in turn.
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