Being Real For God

They experienced the closest of relationships with Him. We have to get serious and realize something that is the most important news you will ever hear: God is yearning to have that kind of relationship with you, too, if you will only let Him. He wants it so badly that He even sent His Son to be the blood sacrifice to offer us a way back to Him.

Speaking of Adam and Eve, I have heard it said that they had the perfect marriage. Adam didn’t have to listen to her talk about all the men she could have married, and she didn’t have to hear about how good his mother cooked.

In this passage, Moses reminds God of His promises. Now, it isn’t like God forgets what He says, so why did Moses do that? Moses did that because he had a sense of genuine concern. There was no longer a sense of the Divine within the nation of Israel because God had removed His presence from them.

How many times have we felt that way about our lives? We might feel like we are in the middle of our own wilderness and God is nowhere around us, but we don’t tell anyone and just try to ignore it, don’t we?

That even applies to our church at times. How many times do we come into the sanctuary and do not feel the absolute presence of God? We feel that way in our lives and in our church when we are not “experiencing” God on a one-to-one basis. What causes us to feel that way?

We feel that way because we are not purposely trying to seek more of God. We are creatures of habit and we settle for whatever we have without trying to get something better. The problem with that is when we do that, we aren’t growing in Him.

When Moses sought God, he did so through passionate prayer. He sought God by going to his knees. One of the biggest problems in the church today is that people want a deep relationship with God but don’t want to pay the price necessary to get that relationship. We want everything handed to us.

But developing an intimate relationship with God takes time and effort. It doesn’t happen overnight. I want you to notice what Moses says to God in verse 13. He wants three things from God if God finds his life pleasing.

He wants God to teach him God’s ways. Moses knew that you can only follow God to where He wants you to go if you know what God wants. And He is asking God to teach him what God wants.

Secondly, Moses is asking God to let him know God. There is nothing more precious in a Christian’s life than knowing God personally. Moses knew you cannot learn from God unless you also know Him. And it is only when we know God can we become one of His children.

And finally, Moses asks for God’s favor. What is God’s favor? It is when God favors us by giving us more of the things that bring our focus back to Him. Have you ever said a quick prayer that you get thru the light before it turns red? And what do you do when that happens? You thank the Lord, don’t you? Did you know that was God’s favor upon you? It was no less a miracle than the miracle that has healed some of you. All born out of God’s favor.

Moses wants God to let him live in God’s favor. Now, Moses’ attitude was much different than most of our attitudes today. We want God’s favor upon our lives for the wrong reason. We want God’s favor so our lives go easier and we can be more comfortable. God wants to give us His favor so we can do more work for Him.