We have arrived at the 50th and final day of Counting the Omer. We have traveled from Egypt and stand at the foot of Mt. Sinai. We have received the Word of God and have entered into a covenant with Him. We started this journey by celebrating Passover and now we conclude by celebrating Shavuot.
Purified garments. Fire. A thunderous sound from heaven. We listened to the Scriptures, and in that moment we knew we were about to be “clothed in power from on high,” but we were terrified to imagine what it might mean.
Materialists claim that spirit doesn’t exist at all. Dualists believe that both exist, but that the spirit world is wholly separate from and superior to the physical world. God, on the other hand, shows us a third way, by embedding every act of divine redemption in a physical matrix: real people, real times, real places.
Are you a spiritual person? If you’re not sure, ask yourself if you’ve ever said or thought things like this…