'I know you by name', God told Moses, and Moses' reply was, '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. - Ex.33:13 NIV
Moses was much more to be trusted than the rest of the Israelites, and it wasn't just because he saw the burning bush. Moses knew what it was to trust in his own doing and how that had failed. The years had humbled him. He had matured from the impetuous favored child of Pharaoh's daughter to one who could not do it on his own. He had become one who would ask for the impossible, one who would tell the Lord: “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
And the LORD said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.”
Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.” - Ex. 33:15-18 NIV
What a far cry from most of our prayers today. Give us this, provide this, heal this, save this. When, all along we should be asking the one thing that draws God's heart to our own. Go with us. We can't do this on our own. Go with us, across any river we have to ford, through whatever desert we must crawl through, up whatever mountain we have to climb. Go with us. And on that journey, show us your glory. Not our glory, not what we can accomplish, but show us your glory.
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