Moses said to the LORD, "See, you say to me, 'Bring up this people,' but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, 'I know you by name and you have also found favor in My sight.' Now therefore, if I have found favor in Your sight, please show me now Your ways, that I may know You...
Consider too that this nation is Your people."
And He [the LORD] said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
And he [Moses] said to Him, "If Your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. For how shall it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not in Your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and Your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?"
And the LORD said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name."
Moses said, "Please show me Your glory."
And He [the LORD] said, "I will make all My goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you My name 'The LORD'. And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show mercy to whom I show mercy. But," He said, "you cannot see My face, for man shall not see Me and live."
~Exodus 33:12-20
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Beautiful reminder.
ReplyDeleteOld Testament readings are fascinating...comforting. Wonderful post!