I have recently been reading through Exodus and was once again amazed at the relationship God had with Moses, probably more than at any time before.
I have been particularly drawn to the following verses in Exodus 33: 12 - 19....you can feel the relationship they have by the nature of the dialogue. God and Moses have this simple conversation about something so profound...His presence
Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ 13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”14 And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15 Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. 16 For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”17 So the Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”18 And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”19 Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
I believe this Saturday God wants to restore / pour out a measure of His Presence / Glory that we have not felt or seen for some time.
I have often quoted the promises of God to Joshua in Joshua 1: 3....every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon I have given you.....but the groundwork, foundation for this promise was founded many years earlier in Joshua’s attitude in one of the verses prior to Exodus 33: 12 – 19.
This is what it says in Exodus 33: 10.... So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
Joshua wanted to be where God was...he saw what Moses had and wanted the same. A question for us all is are we as passionate for God, the Father, that type of relationship, to desire His presence like Joshua did?
I hope you can join us Saturday...Blessings!
Andy
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