Exodus 33:3 (KJV) When God Steps Back

Exodus 33:3 (KJV)

Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.

 

The people had sinned so grievously by making the golden calf. In response, Moses broke the tablets written by God’s hand, and it appeared that God might destroy the whole nation. Yet, in response to Moses’ prayer and regarding His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God reaffirmed His commitment to send His angel before them and give Israel the Promised Land. However, God also declared that He would not go in the midst of them, lest He consume them along the way.

 

Moses desperately desired the blessing and presence of God. He pleaded, and God granted that Moses might see His back parts as He walked away, for even Moses could not see God’s face and live. The sin nature separates us from God, and there is pain in that separation. How we long to know God more perfectly! Yet, there is also grace in this. Our God remains a consuming fire.

 

Consider your own position. As a believer, you love the Lord and desire a closer relationship with Him. But are there not things in your life—just as there are in mine—that you wish the Lord would not see? It is God’s mercy that causes Him to remain one step away from us. Just as He turned His back so as not to see Jesus bearing the sins of mankind, God, who knows and sees everything and cannot forget anything, purposely forgets our sins when they are washed in the blood of Christ. He removes Himself just enough from us so that we are not consumed through our sins as we walk this narrow way.

 

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Exodus 33:3 (KJV) When God Steps Back