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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Exodus 33:12-23
Outside the camp Moses can have talks with the LORD face to face (v. 11). What is the subject of these talks? Again and again, the people in their sad state. Moses is the type of One greater than himself: the Son speaking to the Father of those who have been "given him out of the world" (John 17:6). "Show me now thy way, I pray thee" asks the man of God. Then he pleads for the presence of the LORD to go with them. Compare these requests with the double prayer of the psalmist, "Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk . . . thy spirit is good: lead me into the land of uprightness" (Psalms 143:8; ; Psalms 143:10). "Yes, come Thyself up with us," entreats the faithful intercessor. "We cannot do without Thee."
And God lets Himself unbend. It has been said that He never finds faith too bold. We rejoice His heart when we ask Him for hard things.
Finally Moses makes a third request of the LORD, still more daring: that he may see His glory. He will only see it from behind (in other words in the footsteps left by His love). We think of the request of Jesus to His Father, that where He Himself is, there His own may be also with Him, that they may behold His glory (John 17:24). Such is His dearest wish. Is it ours also?
