Exodus 33: 11, 13, 16
Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend.
This is why Moses is called "the friend of God," because he is the only one who God spoke with on a regular basis so intimately.
"Now, therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found favor in Thy sight, let me know Thy ways, so that I may find favor in Thy sight."
May He teach all of us His ways, to learn His rules of how to love Him and one another.
"For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Thy sight, I and Thy people? Is it not by Thy going with us, so that we, I and Thy people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the Earth?"
How will all the people of all the other Nations of the World discern that God had chosen this family? By God's dwelling in their midst. God is like no other--no other god that is worshipped or honored is anything like our God, because only He is God.
Today, since Christ Jesus has come, He has fulfilled the letter of all these Commandments and Precepts and Laws; has died on His altar, the Cross, fulfilling all the sacrificial rules; and has risen from the dead, proving that God accepted His payment on our behalf for the debt we each owed.
Now God has not chosen a Nation, but individual persons from each Nation, each region, each language, each tribe and family, to be His own. And He does dwell with us now, not as a glorious Light among us, but as His Holy Spirit inside each of us. His Spirit is the Spirit of Light, of Life, of Truth, of Love. He is God Almighty actually living in each of our spirits, making our dead spirits alive, capable of communing with Him, even more intimately than face to face with Moses.
What a priviledge! Who would ever have even conceived in their imagination that the Lord God, Creator, Almighty King over all, would choose to come to each of us individually to live in our spirits to teach us and strengthen us and lead us gently into the path He has chosen for each of us.
Now others will know we belong to Him by the love we have and display for one another, as we learn how to love God, and how to love others with His unconditional love. This is not the love the World knows. It surpasses even Mother-Love, probably the most pure love we can have naturally.
So do others see this love in me?
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
