It is not to tangible 'flaming fire' that you have drawn near, nor to 'gloom, and darkness, and storm,
For Sin shall not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of Love.
For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a son which leads us to cry 'Abba, Our Father.'
If the system of religion which involved Death, embodied in a written Law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses on account of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,
For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness!
For the Spirit which God gave us was not a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power, love, and self-control.