Then
the Lord said to Moses, “Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom
you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, To your descendants I will give it.’ And I
will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite and the
Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. Go
up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst,
lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
Moses
took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it
the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the
Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp. So it
was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and
each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the
tabernacle. And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the
pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord
talked with Moses. All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the
tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent
door. 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.
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.”
And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. 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.”
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.”
And
he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”
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.” But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.”
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.” But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.”
What struck me the most is the
willingness of our Father not only to dwell with but to engage with us.
He is interested and is always
gracious and merciful to help and give us another chance.
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