Message from Scripture: 6/1/2021

 

Our message from Scripture today is Ex. 33:13. “Now if I have indeed found favor with You, please teach me Your ways, and I will know You, so that I may find favor with You.”

 

Moses understood that to know God you must know His ways, His will. The thought is similar to that expressed in Psa. 25:4-5; “Make Your ways known to me, LORD; teach me Your paths. Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation...” God reveals Himself through His word, and by practicing His precepts, one finds God's favor. Moses realized how important it was for this people to learn and apply God's will, if they were to know and please Him.

 

How can we use our influence for good? How can we find favor in God's sight? We must know God's will to know God, as He has clearly revealed Himself to us in Scripture. Only by knowing His will can we live by His will. In knowing and living for God, we find God's favor and blessings. “All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16-17).

 

It should be no surprise to us, with a generation so illiterate about God and the Bible, that our world resembles the practices of the Israelites around Horeb. If we really want to know God, we must spend time with Him in His word. In doing so, we will find the lifestyle that pleases God, that offers us His favor, that makes us complete. “We proclaim him, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ” (Col. 1:28).

 

Knowing the will of God, let’s go out to serve Jesus as our Lord and Savior. In doing so, we will find favor with Him. God bless.

 

Robert