"It's Not about ME part 2"

Chapter 2

Let’s look at the life of Moses. He followed God’s directions, led the people out of Egypt, was used by God to perform miracles and yet when they made it to Sinai, they built the golden calf. So here is Moses pleading with God for mercy on their part. God grants his request, and promises to complete the journey, but Moses doesn’t stop there. He makes one more request. God, show me your Glory. (Ex 33:18) The threshold was crossed, he no longer sought the things of God, or favor from God, but God himself. Moses had been privy to all that God had done, he could have beamed them to the promised land. Do we cross that threshold and seek to be in the presence of God, to witness the glory of who God truly is? How many times do we say God bail me out of this, make my home happy, and provide this or that. Moses saw the glory of God, it change him. Not only did it change him, people noticed, his face still glowed when he came down from the mountain.

Now what exactly is the Glory of God? The Hebrew word for glory is “kowbode” meaning weight, splendor. The glory of God is the full weight of who God is. What is interesting is Moses not only saw the back of God, but what happened in the very next chapter, (Ex 34) God told Moses okay, come back in the morning, be ready to see me.
Exo 34:4-8
(4) So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone.
(5) The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
(6) The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
(7) keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."
(8) And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped.

Verse 5 shows not only did Moses see God, but he stood in God’s presence and God proclaimed all that He was to Moses. That should be what we desire God himself, the full weight of who God is……Next time I’ll talk about some of those attributes.