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Embracing the Presence of God: Lessons from Moses
In this episode, we focus on how God’s presence physically manifested… (visit YouTube for more)
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In advent time, one of the things we focus on is how the presence of God came to be with us physically in person. Today’s meditation verse is also on the presence of God and how important it was to Moses. Exodus chapter 33, verse 15: And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.”
Moses was so convinced that he needed God to be with him in his ministry to Israel, and that the people needed God too, he wasn’t willing to move an inch from where he was until he was certain that God was going to be with them. There is an incredible lesson there for us, isn’t there? The presence of God is something that we can pursue, is something that we can ask for. God wants to be with us. He wants to be asked to be part of our lives, to be in our churches, to be in our communities. Can we be people that are so passionate about God, about his presence that we refuse to budge unless God says, yes, I will be with you?
Now, of course, we do know that God has said he’ll be with us always. But it’s the attitude of heart that I’m focusing on here. That’s what I get from this verse, that we ought to be like Moses, single-minded, pursuing God, looking for his leadership, looking for his guidance in all parts of our lives. Feeling dissatisfied unless God is with us in the things we are doing.
That means doing things God’s way at all times, which can be a bit of a stretch for us, sinful beings. That’s why this is something to aspire to. Moses was a great example, but he didn’t know Jesus, and we do so we can call on the name of our Lord and ask him to be with us, as he is, through the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit working within us. Let us be single-minded and always walk within the presence of God. If we ask him, he will answer.
