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God's Powerful Presence

by Jerry Ousley  
7/31/2010 / Christian Living


Have you ever been I a room all by yourself and suddenly get the feeling that someone else is there? I think most of us have experienced that at one time or another. It happens a lot in the movies. How often have we watched as someone walks into a room thinking that they are completely alone? Little do they realize that the bad guy is hiding in the closet. Then they get that tingly feeling that raises the small hairs on the back of the neck. As they begin looking around we're yelling out, "Hey buddy, they're in the closet!" Now I know that they can't hear us but you'd think that they've watched their share of movies too and that they wouldn't fall for the oldest trick in the book! Why not just call security or the police to check it out? Instead they open the closet door and the bad guy jumps out. It's too late then; we tried to warn them but they just wouldn't listen!

God has a powerful, unseen presence. You can feel it when He has arrived on the scene. It can't be explained scientifically and can only be acknowledged by faith. There's an interesting discussion between The Lord and Moses found in Exodus 33:14-16. It says, "And He said, 'My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.' Then he said to Him, 'If Your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.'" Can you even imagine having such a conversation with God?

It happened after the people of Israel had sinned in worshipping the golden calf. Moses had been forty days and nights on top of Sinai receiving instructions from the Lord. He had been gone so long that they got concerned that maybe he wasn't coming back. They influenced Aaron to make them a god to worship which he did by collecting gold from the people, then forming it into the calf. The people celebrated because now they had a visible god. We're told that they danced before it.

In God's anger He had told Moses that He would send an angel before the people but that His presence, in so many words, would not go with them. Moses knew the consequences of that loss and basically told God that if His presence did not go with them then they would not enter the Promised Land. God agreed and so He did forgive the people and went on with them.

Moses knew the importance of the presence of God. He had experienced it like none other. Remember, one of the things Moses desired was to see God's glory. God allowed him to hide in a cleft of a rock and as He passed by He put His hand over Moses and removed it only long enough for the prophet to see the hinder parts of His glory. Moses had tasted the physical presence of God and now nothing less would do.

I know of no one else who has experienced the presence of God quite like Moses. But that doesn't mean that we can't know His presence for ourselves. There is nothing like being in the presence of the Almighty God. It is an experience that is difficult to describe and can really only be understood personally.

Once we have tasted the presence of God nothing less will do. Like Moses we will refuse to go another step without the Lord, and without knowing that He is near. Now there may be times - grievous times, when it seems that He is not with us. Those times come only to remind us what it's like when God isn't around. Actually He is still there but our circumstances may make it feel like He isn't.

Seek the powerful presence of God in your life. Once you have discovered it you will have found a safe-haven that will always be reliable, true, and trustworthy, and you will never be the same again.

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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