Moses had a God encounter like no one else. God was going to pass by him and show him His glory. There was a problem, however, and in God's own words, "no one can see me and live". So God hid Moses in a cleft in the rock, and covered him with His hand as He passed by. God then removed His hand, and Moses was allowed to see God's glory. What did He see? We don't know for sure, but we know that God's glory had a visible effect on Moses that everyone noticed when he came back down from the mountain. Just like Moses, we are hidden in Christ, so that we might see His glory. He is our mediator, our go between, and has revealed to us the mercy, grace, patience, goodness and truth of God. We can also find comfort in the fact that God covered Moses with His hand. It can be scary sometimes when we can't see, and we feel like we are in the dark when it comes to this life, but as God's people, we can be assured that the darkness is the hand of our God, and He will certainly remove it when the time is right so that we can partake of His glory! I pray that we all would have a renewed vision of our glorious God, and that we would find strength, safety and security in the cleft of the rock.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Hidden in Christ
Exodus 34:6 And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The
LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and
truth,
Moses had a God encounter like no one else. God was going to pass by him and show him His glory. There was a problem, however, and in God's own words, "no one can see me and live". So God hid Moses in a cleft in the rock, and covered him with His hand as He passed by. God then removed His hand, and Moses was allowed to see God's glory. What did He see? We don't know for sure, but we know that God's glory had a visible effect on Moses that everyone noticed when he came back down from the mountain. Just like Moses, we are hidden in Christ, so that we might see His glory. He is our mediator, our go between, and has revealed to us the mercy, grace, patience, goodness and truth of God. We can also find comfort in the fact that God covered Moses with His hand. It can be scary sometimes when we can't see, and we feel like we are in the dark when it comes to this life, but as God's people, we can be assured that the darkness is the hand of our God, and He will certainly remove it when the time is right so that we can partake of His glory! I pray that we all would have a renewed vision of our glorious God, and that we would find strength, safety and security in the cleft of the rock.
Moses had a God encounter like no one else. God was going to pass by him and show him His glory. There was a problem, however, and in God's own words, "no one can see me and live". So God hid Moses in a cleft in the rock, and covered him with His hand as He passed by. God then removed His hand, and Moses was allowed to see God's glory. What did He see? We don't know for sure, but we know that God's glory had a visible effect on Moses that everyone noticed when he came back down from the mountain. Just like Moses, we are hidden in Christ, so that we might see His glory. He is our mediator, our go between, and has revealed to us the mercy, grace, patience, goodness and truth of God. We can also find comfort in the fact that God covered Moses with His hand. It can be scary sometimes when we can't see, and we feel like we are in the dark when it comes to this life, but as God's people, we can be assured that the darkness is the hand of our God, and He will certainly remove it when the time is right so that we can partake of His glory! I pray that we all would have a renewed vision of our glorious God, and that we would find strength, safety and security in the cleft of the rock.
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That is a very good perspective of the dark times in my life. I tend to blame the devil for those times and in some way give him glory, but God is so awesome that He shows me the real truth. Awesome, I like it !
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