Stanek Sunday Word: God’s selfie, Exodus 34:6
When Moses asked God to show him more about Himself, God gave him this revealing self-portrait: “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth” (Exodus 34:6).
Now consider that Moses was one of God’s best friends in the Old Testament. He spent days alone in God’s presence. So I think we can be sure that God’s first sentence summed up what seemed to Him most important to convey.
Ask yourself how your portrait of God measures up to the truth about God. If you see God as stingy, callous, unmerciful, quick to anger, or slow to bless, you are living in a cloud of error that has left you impoverished instead of blessed.
~ Bruce Wilkinson, The Prayer of Jabez Devotional
Aug.24, 2014 6:11 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
God is good ALL the time! Can not wait to get to Heaven to see Him face to face.
Moses wasn’t “one of God’s best friends,” he was the one with the closest relationship. In Deuteronomy, we are told that Moses was the greatest prophet, having spoken with God face to face, and that there was never another like him:
“And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, none like him for all the signs and the wonders that the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, and for all the mighty power and all the great deeds of terror that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.” Deut. 34:10-12