Crying

‘If your presence doesn’t go with us, do not bring us up from here’ Exodus 33:15.

This is the cry echoed by so many in the church these days. Because of the continued rebellion and pride of the people in the wilderness God had kept a distance from the camp. Indeed Moses had to go outside the camp to fellowship with God. Exodus 33:7. The tent of meeting was merely a rough prelude to what came later as the tabernacle.

The Tabernacle was the pattern of approaching a holy God, who described Himself as a consuming fire.Exodus 33:3 He made this point again to the Hebrew christians who so wanted to give up... Hebrews 12:28.

We have gone outside the camp in so many ways over time. Special outpourings of God’s love, special locations, but we must remember what has been shown to us as individuals. We have found grace and favour. This is what was said to Moses and is said to us as we learn to trust.  So we have a response to make.

Let us repent where we need to and remember the cost paid to let us enter the presence of God. There is a way...an order...a legal ground. Exodus 33:21 says...‘there is a place by me on a ROCK’

The solid ground on which we stand is nothing but His mercy and kindness. We deserve nothing. He owes us nothing. We like sheep have gone astray... BUT ...the iniquity of us all is laid on Him.


Daniel Chuter