It's been a trip helped along by other wayfaring companions, many of whom are here tonight. I imagined I would preach it tonight, but mercifully for you, I procrastinated, so you will hear something much shorter. The passage from Deuteronomy begins with what in the Jewish tradition is called the Second Song of Moses, the first being sung at the Red Sea, the beginning of the Exodus. This Second Song is sung at the end of the Exodus, the people poised to cross over Jordan. A song, not a law or a diatribe.
Songs are good for relationships.
This sings of a God who is primary to us and for us, and better than that , is the One who doesn't give up. A contemporary commentator, Rabbi Gunther Plaut, sees throughout the song a trinity of relations. The Gospel tonight calls on us to love one another. The Holy and Blessed Trinity is a crucible of white-hot relationships. The First Person of the Trinity pours infinite love into the bosom of the Second Person, who empties that divine nature into the abyss of the Third Person, and so on.