Who Is like unto Thee

Exodus 15:11, 13

Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation.

 

Who is like unto thee, O LORD?  Among all powers, among all treasures, who is like unto thee?  You are not the highest.  You are not the deepest.  You are not the strongest.  You are not the weakest.  And you are not the in between.  You are height and depth and strength and vulnerability.  You are not the most – you are in the most, as in the least, and you are beyond.  No words can describe you.  No images can capture you.  No concepts can contain you.  Infinite, eternal, and absolute, you are the Holy of holies, the Wonder of wonders, the Life of lives, the Hope of hopes, the Love of loves.  Any fears are blinders; we blind ourselves from your mighty mercy and your merciful might; we delude ourselves in the darkness of self-centered night, turned away from you who are the Light of lights, though you call us into your everlasting Day.  You, who creates and masters the universe, create and master us; we have rejected, forgotten, ignored, and manufactured ourselves like unto moles, blinded by our groping further and further into our little graves.  You, who are the depth, who are the height, call us out of the little graves we dig, out of the little piles we mound, rip the blinders off – not with your strength with which you crush the mountains and storm the seas, but with your vulnerability, with Weakness; give yourself totally to us, you who have no total, who cannot be totaled, give yourself absolutely to us in complete surrender of height and depth and strength; finite, fragile and fleeting, breathe but a dying breath in this world of matter and we are redeemed.  For you are the Love of loves, the holy habitation of truth that sets us free.