According to AW Tozer, "true Christian experience must always include a genuine encounter with God. Without this, religion is but a shadow, a reflection of reality, a cheap copy of the original once enjoyed by someone else of whom we have heard." Moses may have looked (or turned his face) in fear, but soon that fear turned to delightful awe as he truly experienced God. Conceptually, the name and personage of God is difficult to understand but here, Moses experienced it and lived to tell about it. God laid the foundation by which Moses will become one of the greatest leaders in the OT despite his own hesitation and shortcomings. He laid out how His plans were to be carried out and also that the Israelites themselves would finance this exodus.
How awesome the sight because it comes from an awesome God. The Lord himself calls upon the experience and the relationship between Him and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - the three patriachs of Israel three times during this chapter. According to God, it will start at Horeb and the exodus will end at Horeb. The shepherd will ultimately lead his flock back home.
Good day yesterday and it was nice to pray with and for each of my sons before I left for Delly. The weather has turned for now at least and it is wicked cold. Time to bundle up and make the doughnuts! Gym time!
Praise for today: So I have come down to rescue them from the land of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey - the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Hebusites. Ex 3: 8
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