Just a note...Toward the end of last week, I prepared several blog entries because I knew I had a busy weekend ahead. But I got busy and forgot to actually post them, so today I posted entries for three days. Be sure to read the entries for June 21st and 22nd, before reading today's entry.
In Exodus 33, there is a beautiful story of Moses praying for God’s mercy on behalf of the children of Israel who have rebelled and failed God miserably. God spared the Israelites from the destruction they deserved in response to Moses/ prayer and the intimate relationship that they share.
After this encounter with God, Moses had one more request. He said, “Now, show me Your glory.” And God responded in a way that’s hard for us to understand. He explained to Moses that if He had allowed Moses to see His face, Moses would die. But instead He placed Moses in the cleft of a rock – a rock near Himself – and covered Moses there with His own protecting hand. As His glory passed by, in an act of tremendous love, God whispered His name to Moses, a name so holy the Israelites couldn’t even voice it aloud. And then He allowed Moses to look and see His back.
Think of what this means to us. There are so many times I want to “see” God working in situations of my life. But that is not always possible because the manifested glory of God at work is more than our earthly bodies could stand. It would literally scare us to death if we saw the warfare raging. So even though we can’t see Him working, we know by faith that He is. And while He works, He places us in a safe place near Him; a place where nothing can destroy us because He protects us there with His own hand. And while He works, he keeps speaking His name to us; names like Jehovah Rophe, “I am your Healer”; or Jehovah Shalom, “I am your Peace”, or Jehovah Jireh, “I am your Provider.”
And then the most amazing thing of all happens. When His work is done we can come out of our “hiding” place and see where He has been!!! We may not always get to see His work in progress, but we always get to see the results. We can look back and see God’s fingerprints all over what He has accomplished.
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