Thank you, Lord, for this day. May it be used for your glory!
Good morning everyone and welcome back to this week’s Biblit Part 3!
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Yesterday we covered the interpretation and meaning of Exodus 33. If you missed that, make sure to get caught up:
Otherwise, let’s jump into the application for this week’s passage!
Application
Today’s applications are quick and to the point:
Do You Want All the Benefits?
I think it’s important for us, as humans, to check our hearts often. We are so quick to judge Israel for all of their complaints.
But in reality, we do the same thing.
And so we need to be careful in life. When we are waiting on God’s answer or waiting for God to move in our lives, how quick are we to take matters into our own hands instead of trusting in Him?
If we are concentrating so much on what we think God should be doing, we might miss what He is actually doing.
Do we truly want and trust God? Or do we just want the benefits He’s promised us?
We Need God
In that same vein, we must recognize that we need God.
The book of James says this:
“But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desire.” (James 1:14 CSB).
Our desires are not His, and without God, we cannot possibly think we can do God’s work on our own.
Or, as Jesus put it:
“Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.” (John 15:4 CSB).
We can only do the work of the Lord if we remain in Jesus. We need Him to accomplish His mission!
We Get God!
And the glorious thing about needing God is that we actually get God!
Not only do we get Him as our guide, but we get a relationship with the Almighty!
Paul says this powerful prayer for the Colossians:
“For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God” (Colossians 1:9-10 CSB).
It is pleasing to God when we get to know Him more! How amazing is that!? Such an emphasis on building our relationship with the Lord.
So often, the focus of the gospel is the fact that we get eternal life with God. This is true, but let’s never forget that one of the most precious gifts of the gospel is that we get to have a relationship with our Creator right now!
Jesus, Our Mediator
Last, but certainly not least, we should be led to praise and be thoroughly encouraged that just like Israel, we too have a mediator.
Moses was so bold and caring for his people to actually go to God and beg on their behalf.
Jesus is said to be at the right hand of God interceding for us each and every day!
Rest in that peace! Satan is the accuser. He is the one telling God all the bad we’ve done and how much we deserve death.
Jesus is the one advocating for us, the one that took the punishment already, and the one praying for us every day!