“Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart the tent.” Exodus 33:11 Why did Joshua not depart the tent of meeting? When Moses left the tent it states that Joshua would not depart. Is it his desire to be close to God? Did Joshua talk to God also? Is it passion to know God that motivated him? Just some questions I have.
How often do I express my desire to know God more to God? It is all too easy to share my struggles and lack of hunger for my relationship with God at times with my friends. Does it really matter that I tell them that? Absolutely not. I need to talk to God about my relationship with Him. It is like a person struggles in a relationship and they talk to every random person on the street but never to the person who they are having the problem with. I love how Moses found favor in God’s sight and God knows his name. What a thought that is that a small insignificant being can find favor in the Creator God’s sight! Do I find that kind of favor? I think that in my own flesh I do not and never will. I am evil to my core but through Jesus Christ I do find that favor and freedom. Also I know that my name is written in God’s book of life and I can relish in that fact.
Imagine the awe and splendor Moses saw when he saw but a glimpse of the glory of God when he was hide in the cleft of the rock! Wow! And the name of God, ‘The Lord, the compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth, who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the forth generations.” God is holy and reading through the new testament reminds me of how unable I am to approach god because of my inherent sin. I want to jump ahead to the the good new, the Gospels but I need to see and ponder the sinfulness that is me first.
