The Lord's desire has always been to have a covenant relationship with His people. But other things often get in the way of this. We see this in the storyline of Israel. Drawing lessons from the story where the people of God come to Mount Sinai (Exodus 19), Calvin Hong shares about how impatience and a wrong fear became stumbling blocks to their call to be 'a kingdom of priests and a holy nation', all of them with a call to worship and minister to the Lord.