A Better Word

Hebrews 12:18-24 NIV
The Mountain of Fear and the Mountain of Joy


18 You have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom and storm; 19 to a trumpet blast or to such a voice speaking words that those who heard it begged that no further word be spoken to them, 20 because they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death.” 21 The sight was so terrifying that Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”
22 But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly, 23 to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Experiencing God is contrasted here between two mountains.  Before one we stand in fear, we tremble in unrighteousness.  In the other, we are able to dance with joy, for God has made us righteous in His Son.  Jesus is that rock, that mountain upon which we stand.  It is the rock which does not move and is everlasting.  A better word.