# 25 2025 Dev. Ex 33:19 “Mercy and Compassion!” Read all of chapter thirty-three first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s Story. Do you believe that this may also be part of our story, in our time? All passages are taken from the NIV.
Exodus 33:3 “Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.”
Ex.33 After the fiasco of the golden calf and God’s refusal to go with them, the people mourned. Moses, for his part, went to meet God at the tent of meeting, this was before the tabernacle was established. God shows His glory to Moses.
Vs.1-6 “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’” God’s sends Moses and the nation to leave and to go to Canaan. “But I will not go with you…
When the people heard these distressing words, they began to mourn and no one put on any ornaments.”
Vs.7-11 The tent of meeting. “Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrance to their tents.” When the pillar of cloud stood at the “entrance to the tent, the people worshiped, each at the entrance to their tent.”
Vs.12-14 “Moses said to the Lord, you have been telling me, ‘lead these people, but you have not let me know whom you will send with me.” God answered “my presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” When God sends us, he will not only go with us in the power of the Holy Spirit but He will equip us as well!
Vs.15-17 Then Moses said to him, “if your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here… 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.” In many ways Moses is a type of Christ, interceding for the people and bargaining with God for His presence. In Christ and by His Spirit, God knows us by name and we have direct access to God. Praise the Lord!
Vs.18-23 “Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory. And the Lord said, ‘I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” This chapter and this proclamation shows us the heart of God in Christ. It is not what we do or don’t do, trusting in Jesus only saves us! We are in God’s Hands, Amen! The rest of the chapter tells us how God will show Moses His glory and keep Moses alive in the process.
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