I Believe I’ll Stay Right Here
Exodus 33:9-11 Amplified Bible (AMP)
9 When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the door of the tent, and the Lord would talk with Moses.10 And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the tent door, and all the people rose up and worshiped, every man at his tent door.11 And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Moses returned to the camp, but his minister Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the [temporary prayer] tent.
All of us have woken up in the morning and felt the warmth and comfort of our bed and articulated the fact that we thought it would be best to stay right where we are. On those days, speaking for myself, I feel safe, a sense of contentment and most times an overwhelming sense of peace. I have experienced times with God that has felt the same way. Spending time laying prostrate before Him, I feel a sense of contentment, a sacred place, holy, peaceful and loved in such a way that it is overwhelming and makes me not want to move from my posture of communion with my Lord. I have been blessed to be in church services where we were never able to get out of worship because God came in and sat with us; His love and anointing overtook us. Not just were we in a place of peace, we felt transfigured and in a place of holiness, a sacred place that one would resist coming out of, because it felt so good; Those moments only made you want to stay right there and not go anyplace else. It has been these times that I understood that God was doing something, even when I did not understand Him as I do now.
How often do you run into God’s presence? How often do you desire to press into God’s presence in worship even at home or do you find yourself waiting to be filled in the assembly (church)? Have you developed a relationship with God that desires His presence and you find comfort in His presence more than anyplace else? The tabernacle was where the Spirit of God rested. It is a representation of the Holy place, Joshua, did not want to leave God’s presence. His desire was to be where the Spirit of God was. He desired to maximize His time and what He could obtain from God. I believe Joshua understood something that many of us miss, which is the more we spend time with God, the more of Him we should obtain. David in Psalms expressed the one thing that He desired of the Lord and that would He seek after that He would dwell in the House of the Lord Forever (Psalms 27:4). The more we push the world out and God in He becomes the focus and we are able to receive from Him in a way that others may not. It also sends a message to God that we are reliant, dependent, and desirous of Him, above all else. I am a firm believer that you are what you eat; you become what you give yourself to and who you invest your time and effort into.
My desire is more of God, to do more for Him, and to stay in His presence. I desire to live a life that glorifies God, not just live a life that I desire the way that I think it should be done. I want to stay in His presence, in a posture of worship that is my life. We should all desire for God to saturate our lives and to fill us up to overflowing, but the question becomes do we. We hear it said so much being so heaven bound that we are no earthly God, but earth is ultimately not our home and man is ultimately not who we should desire to please and reflect, it should be the one we refer to as ABBA Father, Our Lord, Savior and King. We should desire to stay in a posture in our lives that God fills us and that our soul is crying “less of me and more of you is what I need.” As we become willing participants of worship and submission we will see God’s anointing, grace and favor manifested in our lives. We will find the more we give to God the more He will give to us, the more we yield in sweet surrender to Him, the more He fills our life with His Glory and Good things, that accomplish His work and His will!
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