Glowing in the Dark: Take 2

Exodus 34

I’m still dwelling here.

There’s something here to learn and soak in.

I think the message for me is that God loves us and invites us to meet with Him wherever we are.

I don’t think He calls us up on a mountain for 40 days and 40 nights.  Although I would love to try that sometime.

We have been reading that God is a God who comes down to His People.

Where we are.

That is something so evident

In His command to build the Tabernacle.

That is what set God apart

Form all the gods of Egypt

That Israel grew up with

In Egypt.

He came down.

And Jesus is Emmanuel

God with us.

So I think…

Some days I shouldn’t think so much!

But God with us today

Tabernacling among us

Is about recognizing

His Presence

In our everyday.

And that sets us apart from other people

Just as much as it set apart the Israelites.

How do you remind yourself to remember?

Some days I really have to strain to hear God’s Voice.

I worry about my work

And if I can get it all done

And I can get a bit obsessive.

I know that God loves it

When we turn our eyes toward Jesus

And look full in His Wonderful Face.

“Because those who look to him are radiant

Their faces are never covered with shame.”  Ps 34:5

And even in this day

When we don’t have hours

To read the Bible

We can just turn our eyes to the Son

And God’s Light

And just be.

I keep sitting on these chapters

And I don’t think God

Is finished here just yet.

Maybe Moses was on to something.

“Do not lead us out from here

if Your Presence does not go with us.” 

So it’s as much about listening

As it is about reading. 

All the parts of God’s Story.