"21 Then the Lord said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. 22 When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by". (Exodus 33:21-22 NIV).
Among the Old Testament holy people there was none who saw and encountered God's radiance as Moses did. Not at all like different prophets who God addressed and uncovered Himself to in a dream or dream, God addressed Moses eye to eye, as a man addresses his companion (Exo. 33:11).
God said of Moses, With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD; And he sees the type of the LORD… " (Num. 12:8 NIV).
Despite the fact that Moses lived and worked under the Old Covenant, yet he delighted in a cherishing, profound and hint fellowship with God.
What an incredible test to us under a New and Better Covenant!
In spite of the fact that Moses had heard God's capable of being heard voice, had seen grand appearances of God, and had seen numerous extraordinary and wondrous demonstrations of God previously, yet he was as yet ravenous and yearning for a greater amount of God.
Moses' voracious appetite and hunger for God was unquestionably one of the real reasons why he saw, experienced and showed God's magnificence in an exceptional measurement in his age.
Moses' most profound want was to see God in His full wonderfulness and glory, similarly as He seems to be, up close and personal. Thusly, as Moses communed with God, he begged God, saying, "Please, show me your glory." (Exo. 33:18 NKJV).
We are not seeing, encountering and showing God's radiance progressively today since we are not ravenous, looking for, aching or gasping for God progressively. Unfortunately, not at all like Moses, we get effortlessly occupied, fulfilled, engaged or distracted with "the things" that God provides for us, improves the situation us, or does through us, instead of His individual.
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Albeit no mortal man in the substance can stand seeing full disclosure of God's brilliance and magnificence, yet Moses discovered elegance in God's sight and God uncovered His greatness to him in an extraordinary way and measurement.
It is just in God's beauty that His full radiance is uncovered. It is just in Jesus Christ, the beauty of God that conveys salvation to all men, that God's wonderfulness is completely present, uncovered or showed (John 1:17, Titus 2:11). Jesus Christ is the splendor of God's eminence and the express picture of His individual (Heb. 1:3).
The Scripture affirms of Christ, "For in him all fullness of God was pleased to dwell." (Col. 1:19 RSV).
At the point when Moses begged God to demonstrate to him His full wonderfulness, God requested that Moses should reposition himself.
God said to Moses in EXODUS 33,
21 “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.
22 “So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.
23 “Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.” (NKJV).
How did Moses reposition himself to see God's more noteworthy transcendence?
In what capacity would we be able to likewise reposition ourselves to see and show God's brilliance and nearness progressively?
It is knowledge to discover!
To begin with, God requested that Moses move more like a place close by where he would have the capacity to see His magnificence clearer and better, in another and uncommon measurement.
The Scripture records: "And the LORD stated, "Here is a place by Me… " Exo. 33:21
At the point when Moses moved closer to God, he didn't just observe God in a way he had never observed God, he likewise reflected and showed God's grandness in a way he had never done (Exo. 34:30).
Dissimilar to Moses, the New Testament adherents to Christ have been accommodated or conveyed close to God through the conciliatory demise of Jesus on the cross (Eph. 2:13-17). Be that as it may, the adherents are as yet anticipated that would develop in the elegance and the information of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and day by day seek after closeness or more profound fellowship with God in Christ.
Having been conveyed close to God through the blood of Jesus Christ, you ought not enable anybody or anything to separate God and you. Unfortunately, numerous devotees today are following the Lord Jesus from a far separation, in this way enabling numerous things to interfere with God and them.
This is the essential motivation behind why numerous devotees today are not observing, encountering, reflecting and showing God's grandness to the world as they should.
In the event that you are not happy with the measurement of God's greatness you are seeing, encountering or showing now in your life, home, profession, business or service, at that point the time has come to reposition yourself as Moses did.
You have to recognize, disavow, expel or manage anything that is preventing you from developing in the effortlessness and disclosure information of Jesus Christ, and from getting a charge out of day by day an adoring, profound and suggest partnership or fellowship with God (Jam. 4:8).
Second, because of Moses' enthusiastic supplication to see God's full radiance, God requested that Moses should change the establishment or ground on which he was standing. In the event that Moses would see a more noteworthy measurement of God's greatness, he would need to remain on the stone where God would boil down to show His wonderfulness to him.
God said to Moses, "… and you might remain on the stone… " (Exo. 33:21)
Where Moses was standing would decide the lucidity of his vision of God's grandness. Clearly, Moses saw God's radiance more noteworthy, clearer and better while remaining on the stone than he would where he was remaining previously.
You are not seeing God's magnificence in a more noteworthy measurement today since you are not standing firm on "the profound shake," which is Christ Jesus (1 Cor. 10:4). You can't understanding and show God's full eminence without you standing firm in the completed work of Jesus Christ for your salvation.
In like manner, when you neglect to remain upon God's Word or hold quick unto God's guarantees, you will miss the sign or disclosure of God's radiance. God's Word is the main beyond any doubt establishment or shake whereupon you should assemble your life, home, connections, vocation, business or service in the event that you genuinely want to understanding and show God's transcendence progressively.
The early Church experienced and showed God's radiance to their age in evident conduct and measurements since they "proceeded with enduringly in the witnesses' convention and cooperation, in the fellowshipping, and in petitions." (Acts 2:42)
In the fog of numerous exercises and diversions, the messengers set out to give themselves constantly to supplication and to the service of the Word (Acts 6:4).
Despite solid resistance and abuse, the early witnesses of Jesus held quick to the expressions of life and truth. At the point when directed by their older folks not to talk or instruct for the sake of Jesus, their determination and reaction was: "For we can't however talk the things which we have seen and heard." (Acts 4:20)
Until the point when we additionally start to amplify or regard God's Word above whatever else in the Church today we won't not see, involvement and show God's transcendence to our age as the early Church saw, experienced and showed it.
It takes an outlook and determination to look for reality, have confidence in reality, live by reality, hold quick to reality, and battle for reality of God's Word to see and experience God's greatness progressively.
In this continually evolving world, you should set out to stand and stand up for reality, to grasp, receive and engender sound principles, and battle genuinely for the confidence that was once for all conveyed to the holy people of old.
The Scripture orders, "Hold quick the example of sound words which you have gotten notification from me, in confidence and love which are in Christ Jesus." (2 Tim. 1:13)
In conclusion, for Moses to see and experience the radiance of eminence in a more prominent and phenomenal measurement, he should will to be covered up in the parted of the stone. It is just God that must be seen when He slid upon the stone in His glory. No tissue must brilliance in God's essence (1 Cor. 1:29).
Along these lines, God said to Moses in Exodus 33,
22 "So it might be, while My greatness cruises by, that I will place you in the parted of the stone, and will cover you with My hand while I cruise by.
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23 "Then I will take away My hand, and you should see My back; however My face might not be seen." (NKJV).
Albeit covered up in the separated of the stone, yet Moses still observed a more noteworthy and extraordinary measurement of God's transcendence, and it rubbed such a great amount on him that the skin of his face shone when he came back from God's essence (Exo. 34:29).
Dearest, it is just as you reside in the adoration and words or instructing of Christ that you can see, involvement and show God's radiance progressively. It isn't sufficient to come to Christ, have confidence in Christ or acknowledge Christ as your Lord and Savior, you should take steps to stand or proceed in the adoration, word or educating of Christ until the point when you see Christ eye to eye at His physical come back to the world (John 8:31-32).
The Lord Jesus orders in (John 15:
9 "As the Father cherished Me, I additionally have adored you; dwell in My adoration.
10 "In the event that you keep My edicts, you will dwell in My affection, similarly as I have kept My Father's precepts and reside in His adoration.
Witness Paul additionally reproves in Colossians 3:
1 If then you were raised with Christ, look for those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the correct hand of God.
2 Set your brain on things above, not on things on the earth.
3 For you kicked the bucket, and your life is covered up with Christ in God.
4 When Christ who is our life shows up, at that point you likewise will show up with Him in brilliance.
In this way, reposition yourself today for the indication of God's greatness in your life by fellowshipping day by day with God in petition and in the investigation of God's Word, by standing firm in the completed work of Christ, and by dwelling in the affection and expression of Christ.
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