TEACH ME YOUR WAYS O LORD
Thursday, 4th August 2016
Exodus 33:7-23 (NKJV)
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say 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 grace in My sight.
’13 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.
”14 And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” …
Here we find Moses the man of God crying unto the Lord to teach him His ways so that he may know God and continue to find favour with Him. Look at Moses; the man that the Lord spoke to face to face as a man speaks to his friend (v. 11).You would not have expected him to want anything else. Yet, he desired to go deeper in his relationship with God.
Are you satisfied with your relationship with God? Can you say that The Almighty speaks to you face to face? Have you seen His glory? Are you hidden in the Rock of Ages (Jesus Christ)? Are you satisfied only with the acts of God, His signs and wonders? Have you known His ways? God showed His acts to Israel but His ways to Moses (Psalm 103:7). Do not seek for less. Seek all of Him! Let this be your consuming passion as it was Paul’s (Phil. 3: 7-10) and you will surely be blessed. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for His righteousness…Matt. 5:6.Like Moses let your heart cry be, “teach me your ways O Lord!”
Prayer: O God teach me Your ways and not Your acts only. Stir my heart to seek You always