Favor In Your Sight
Moses said to the LORD, “See, you have
said to me, ‘Bring up this people’; but you have not let me know whom you will
send with me. Yet you have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found
favor in my sight.’ Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me your ways,
so that I may know you and find favor in your sight. Consider too that this
nation is your people.” He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give
you rest.” And he said to him, “If your presence will not go, do not carry us
up from here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight,
I and your people, unless you go with us? In this way, we shall be distinct, I
and your people, from every people on the face of the earth.”
The LORD said to Moses, “I will do the
very thing that you have asked; for you have found favor in my sight, and I
know you by name.” Moses said, “Show me your glory, I pray.” And he said, “I
will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim before you the name,
‘The LORD’; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show
mercy on whom I will show mercy. But,” he said, “you
cannot see my face; for no one shall see me and live.” And the LORD continued,
“See, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock; and while my
glory passes by I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by; then I
will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be
seen.”
There are times when we need to walk
away from what we have done for years. People walk away from us in death,
children move away. We leave a job or a spouse and it seems like we leave
everything behind. But when we know the LORD, we will never have to walk into
an unknown future alone.
Think about the children of
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