For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn’t it that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?”
Exodus 33:13 (WEB)
This Thanksgiving, when we are thinking of what we are thankful for, I wonder if anyone will think of something like this.
“I am thankful that I am not separated from God.”
Sounds simplistic, doesn’t it?
If you walk in a devoted relationship with Jesus, your connection with Him should make you thankful.
Our key verse is a reminder of the way things could be if you walked outside of a relationship with God, like the pagan people living around the Hebrews in our key verse.
SEPARATED
The Hebrews had rebelled, and God temporarily withdrew from them. But Moses pleaded with God on their behalf, and God kept His promise to bring their offspring to Canaan.
Though that verse was meant for the Hebrews, it serves as a reminder for believers that stepping away from our relationship into sin separates us from God.
But there is another passage that highlights the relationship God wants with us. Look at a verse from this chapter in Exodus.
Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.
Exodus 33:11
God longs for this kind of relationship with you!
How beautiful are the feet of those
who share the Good News
Isaiah 52:7
World English Bible (WEB)
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Getting the Seed out of the basket and into hungry hearts. Matthew 13 