And He said, “My Presence Will Go With You..

Show me Your glory, Father!  May my heart never depart from Your tabernacle.   I want to live in the secret place of Your Presence...hide me there.  Draw me close and never let me go. No matter where I find myself physically and emotionally, the truth is You are my Emanuel. You are my God who is with me...my God who makes His home with me. 

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.—Exodus 33:7

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.—Exodus 33:11

And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

15 Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.

16 “For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us?—Exodus 33:14-16

But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”—John 6:68-69

One thing I have desired of the LORD,

That will I seek:

That I may dwell in the house of the LORD

All the days of my life,

To behold the beauty of the LORD,

And to inquire in His temple.

5 For in the time of trouble

He shall hide me in His pavilion;

In the secret place of His tabernacle

He shall hide me;

He shall set me high upon a rock.

6 And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me;

Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle;

I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice!

Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

8 When You said, “Seek My face,”

My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”

9 Do not hide Your face from me;

Do not turn Your servant away in anger;

You have been my help;

Do not leave me nor forsake me,

O God of my salvation.

10 When my father and my mother forsake me,

Then the LORD will take care of me.

11 Teach me Your way, O LORD,

And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.

12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries;

For false witnesses have risen against me,

And such as breathe out violence.

13 I would have lost heart, unless I had believed

That I would see the goodness of the LORD

In the land of the living.

14 Wait on the LORD;

Be of good courage,

And He shall strengthen your heart;

Wait, I say, on the LORD!—Psalm 27:4-14

Joy in Your Strength...

 1 The king shall have joy in Your strength, O LORD;

And in Your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

2 You have given him his heart's desire,

And have not withheld the request of his lips.

Selah

3 For You meet him with the blessings of goodness;—Psalm 21:1-3

Beloved....

Our joy comes when we go in the strength of our God!  In Him all that we do will prosper and we will rejoice. His desires will be our own.  Our God meets us with the blessings of goodness!  He is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. Oh, trust in the Lord for He is good and His mercy upon those that are His is from everlasting to everlasting.  

And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. 8 Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.—2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Amazing Love!

 Now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” 31 Then Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold! 32 Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.” --Exodus 32:30-32

I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen--Romans 9:1-3

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. --John 15:13

To My Daughters,

WOW! WOW! WOW!  What a heart of love both Moses and Paul had for God's people.  What conviction this brings to my own heart.  How much of a burden do I have for the lost around me?  I can say this, it is nothing, nothing like what Paul and Moses demonstrated.  I barely spare the effort to share the gospel with those around me, much less desire to be accursed so that they could be saved.  I do not carry constant grief and sorrow in my heart daily for the lost...I carry it for myself and for my own problems but not for others.  I do not wish myself to be blotted out from God's Book of Life or sent to hell so that others could be saved!  I do not understand nor can I fathom the depth of this kind of love.  

Here is what I do know.  This kind of love is not of man...it is of God.  It was God's love shed abroad in both Moses' and Paul's hearts that enabled them to have such agape (selfless) love for the people in their care.  Looking into the lives of both Moses and Paul, we see Jesus...

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. --Romans 5:8

AMAZING LOVE HOW CAN IT BE THAT YOU MY KING SHOULD DIE FOR ME?

Love

Mom