Today's Thought

Today’s Thought from Exodus 19-21     

 

Well I have been terribly lax in my reading and writing the last two weeks so I am going to try and get back on track here, business is a lousy excuse.

 

What an incredible relationship Moses had with God, think about it for a moment, a verbal, and not only that but being in the presence of God on the Mountain.  I am guessing this is where the phrase “Mountain top experience” comes from.  What believer wouldn’t be in awe of an audible audience with the God of the Universe?  God gives Moses the commandments by which the people of Israel are to live.  Chapter 19 verses 14 -25  what an incredible picture that must have been,  Mount Sinai,  the trembling of the mountain, the billowing smoke, the lightning, the thunder, and then God’s Voice coming through all of it.  How could anyone not be awed by this moment in time, how could anyone doubt, how could anyone fall away after experiencing what the people of Israel were experiencing.  But even one chapter later, God knew and understood the hearts of his children and knew that they would struggle in their continued faithfulness.  He specifically tells Moses that “You have seen for yourselves that I have spoken to you from Heaven:  Do not make any gods to be alongside me; do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gods of gold…...”  Now if you know the story at all coming up you know that this is exactly what they did.  WHY?  How much evidence do we need to know God is the God that he claims to be?  Are we all that different today?  We know all of the wonder that is God. We have access to the story unparalleled in history and yet we regularly worship at other idols.  Our entertainment, our jobs, our investments, our relationships, etc… looking to any one of them for the answers and the solutions to our troubling times.  How far do we have to be from the mountain before it has no effect on our lives?  Sometimes I think we only have to turn around and all of a sudden even though the mountain is directly behind us it has no affect on us.  When we cannot identify God in our plans and in our lives it isn’t because God isn’t there, it is because we aren’t including him.  Regardless of the problem(s) we face. God has demonstrated thousands of times that he is interested in the smallest of our daily details, down to the very food we eat and water we drink for life itself.

 

Make sure your plans include God, and when you plan, face the mountain, not the desert.

Have a great day.

Rob