With Me

Exodus 33:15 Then Moses said to him, “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?”

Even after all the miraculous signs that were performed including the parting of the Red Sea the Israelites still remained a stiff necked people. Moses was tired and yet God directs him to lead the people into a land of milk and honey.

Moses could have been presumptuous and said, "Well...God since you have been with me this far...I know you will be with me in the future". Moses knew that without God he was totally useless. He had learnt that lesson good and proper. He knew that He was an instrument in God's hand for His glory.

It is very encouraging to read that Moses did not ask for wondrous signs and miracles. He asked for God's presence. He had learnt that with God all things are possible. He relied on His God and not on an arm of flesh. He had learnt that favor with God is the best thing to happen to man.

We can go out dressed in all our finery, latest designer clothes and the best shoes but if God's presence is not with us we are little more useful than cardboard cut-outs of us. We might as well be the mighty Michelin man blowing in the wind, huge but of no real use either to man or God.

Let us seek His presence, that is one thing He will not deny.