Contemplative Bible Reading

Exodus 33:14-16 (New International Version 2011)

¹⁴ The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

¹⁵ Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. ¹⁶ How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

Moses is speaking to the Lord. Times are tough, the people are grumbling, and Moses doesn’t know if  he can keep dragging a couple million people around with him. Moses makes a request:

Be with us, go with us when you send us.

Things don’t change much over a few thousand years. We should daily make this same request.