“Please Reveal Yourself to Me!”
Have you ever heard a joke and not understood the punch line? Maybe not but my sister is an example of this happening (all the time!). She would hear a joke and laugh at it. We would all continue doing what we were doing and about 30 minutes later deep, hard and sometimes uncontrollable laughter would erupt from the other room where my sister was and we would wonder what she was laughing at. When asked, my sister would tell us through tears of laughter that she finally got the joke and was laughing at it!
Spiritually speaking, I’ve felt this way at times: reading and receiving but maybe not fully understanding what God is telling me, only to understand and “get it” later in the day, week, month or year!
Moses walked with the Lord, leading the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt, raised his staff and parted the Red Sea, struck the Rock and caused water to come out. But Moses having spoken with God and been given the 10 Commandments and being in God’s presence on many occasions, still had a desire to have the Lord be revealed to Him even more! Moses pleaded with God in Exodus 33:18, “Please, show me Your glory.”
Imagine having experienced all of what we read about in Moses’ life and still asking God to reveal Himself! But you should ask yourself, why not? Moses did and God placed him in a cleft on the side of a mountain, covered Moses with His hand, and allowed Moses to catch a glimpse of Him as He was passing away.
If we ask, God will do much the same with us. His Word says, “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” (James 4:8) Jesus tells us in Luke 11:9, 10, “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
I pray today that you ask God to reveal Himself to you! I pray hat you may see His glory and shine with it in the midst of darkness. The laughter others will hear out of the next room will be laughter of joy because God has revealed Himself to you a little more!
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