God, I Want Your Presence...
After everything we've walked through in our own lives these past few weeks and everything we've learned going through Exodus so far, There is something in me that keeps coming back to one simple request...
God...I want Your presence.
Not just the promise.
Not just the progress.
Not just the next step.
Your presence.
Exodus 33 is that moment right after everything fell apart. The golden calf incident, their impatience. The we can't wait on God anymore moment. And they rushed ahead and built something shiny to worship because God's silence was too much. Then God says something that should terrify us...You can still go to the land. I'll still send help. But I'm not going with you.
That's scary, Because that means it's possible to step into something that looks like the promise without the Presence of God. Moses catches it immediately. He doesn't celebrate, He doesn't say, Well at least we're still moving forward.
🌟 Nope....He says, "If You don't go with us, don't send us." 🌟
Probably the smartest thing we've ever heard moses say. In other words he was saying I don't care how good it looks. I don't care how blessed it sounds. If God's not in it, I don't want it.
Wow...Right....
Because we can build. We can organize, plan, decorate, cast vision, write it down and make it happen. We can make things happen.
But making things happen is not the same thing as being in His Presence.
And I don't want to build something that God isn’t breathing on!
Moses understood something so simple but so deep, What separates God's people isn't their land, their numbers, their talent, or their structure, not there curriculum, or bylaws and not the songs they sing...I could go on and on but.....
🌟 It's His presence. 🌟
That's the difference. And Moses doesn't stop there. He says, "Show me Your glory."He's not satisfied with just God will go with us. He wants more. He wants to know Him deeper. That's where I find myself lately. I dont want God to just bless what I'm doing. I want Him to Be in it. I Don't just want him to open the door. I want him to Walk through it with me. I Don't just want a promise, I want Him.
Because I've learned that the land without His presence will exhaust you. The assignment without His presence will drain you. The ministry without His presence just becomes performance.
But when His presence is there.....
Even the wilderness feels steady.
So today isn't complicated at all.
God.... If You're not going, I'm not moving.
Your presence is what I'm after.
That's enough.
Love Pastor Mandy
Ark of Hope Ministry
Daily Reading Exodus 33
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