With You

Look at this dialogue between Moses and God, and be amazed.

"If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people."

The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here."

We see a man desiring to know God’s ways, to find his favor, and to lead his people.

We see the Lord offering this man his Presence and his Rest.

We see the man acknowledging that without the Presence there is no movement forward.

I love this!

When we ask God to teach us and when we have a teachable heart, this pleases him, and his Presence rests upon us.  It’s palpable, it’s real, it’s life-giving, it’s comforting, and it’s directional.

We can go forward into unknown territory, into lands full of giants, into desolate places, and over mountains, when the Presence is with us.

In fact, we should desire to only go forward when He is with us, and to not move if he is not.

Ask him to teach you, ask God to be with you, and he will.

That’s an incredible privilege we have – to ask the almighty God to be our traveling companion – and to hear him say yes.