Tuesday truths this week are taken from Exodus 33. This passage of scripture has become one of my favorites. I actually read it for the first time after the bus wreck five years ago. Verse 22 became a picture for me of that day. God had us in the cleft of His rock that day and covered by His hand for sure. Verse 17 has become a life verse and one that I have stood on when the enemy comes in with his lies. Now understand sometimes I have to deal with the question of Are you pleased with me Lord? (So thankful for a friend who spoke that word a few weeks ago), but once we know that it leads to the first part. The last part is something that never changes on God's part. How many times though do we call ourselves by something other than what He calls us? Verse 16 asks a question that we all need to ask ourselves. The only thing that will make us stand out(and remember we are called to be separate from this world) is His presence going with us.
12 Moses said to the Lord, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with me.’ 13 If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people.”
14 The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
15 Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. 16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
17 And the Lord said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.”
18 Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.”
19 And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”
21 Then the Lord said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. 22 When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.”
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