Exodus 33:13-15 (Amplified Bible)
13Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You [progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with You, perceiving and recognizing and understanding more strongly and clearly] and that I may find favor in Your sight. And [Lord, do] consider that this nation is Your people.
14And the Lord said, My Presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.
15And Moses said to the Lord, If Your Presence does not go with me, do not carry us up from here!
Tonight I was not feeling very well. The weather had changed and become bitterly cold this week and I was working a position at work that placed me in front of an open door for the past two days. My throat had become sore and my ear had started to ache, so by the time I got home this evening I felt pretty horrible. My symptoms had worsened. I ate and talked with my children and my mom. I had communicated with a person or two, as I laid across my bed I felt myself falling asleep. My daughter who was in the room with said "mom, you have to write the devotional, you should get up and get it over with." I opened one eye and said I think I really need to just rest for a moment because I am not hearing anything right now. My symptoms had become the thing that was overwhelming. As I laid there I dozed off for a while. When I woke up I could hear my daughters words ringing in my ears. "getting it over with." For me to have moved in that moment I would have moved in my suffering and wrote in my flesh.
Many times we will move out in order to just get things done and we move without God. For many of us we feel guilty to take a minute to rest or to sit down and get quiet. We either feel as if we will miss something or that someone will think less of us, if we are not trying to keep pace with the world. Sometimes it is God's will for us not to move in that moment. Sometimes it is God's will for us to rest, sit with Him and be restored in order for us to move in a time when we are better equipped and better prepared to master the task that awaits us. In many instance it is God's timing that requires us to wait and move when His spirit leads us to go. Instead we go on ahead, leaving Him behind in a fruitless exercise in futility. If we had only decided to rest for a moment and get what we needed from God and what we needed to move forward. We often forget everything that we are capable of is not what is the best course of action for us and those we will encounter, and God's anointing may be lacking, if we move in that moment.
As we move into another phase of our day or our lives, make sure that you understand where you need to be. Even more importantly make sure you know where God is before you move. It is not always a good thing just to go and get it over with, you might need a moment to rest and get it right! Don't run out on empty, make sure God is going with you and you have what it takes to successfully complete the task at hand.
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