Pastor shared during our weekly staff meeting this verse from Exodus 33:14. “God said, “My presence will go with you. I’ll see the journey to the end.” What is very significant about this verse which I never realized is what God told Moses in the 1st part of this chapter. God did not want to go with the Israelites to the promised land because they were stiff-necked and stubborn people; if He went with them, He may be tempted to destroy them along the way. Instead, He would send an angel to accompany the Israelites. And before verse 14, Moses pleaded with God and in the end God relented and said what He said in verse 14.
I can identify with Moses’ fear and uncertainty to travel to an unknown land. I felt the same way recently as I was about to chart a direction for my department next year. I am not a visionary, nor a big picture person, neither am I a risk taker. And to do something that is totally not who I am made to be makes me rather insecure. I don’t want to bring my team through a maze of uncertainties and follow blindly a course that leads to nowhere.
But the comfort of God’s words that day strengthens me. I feel like He is personally encouraging me; that as I continue to seek Him, He will see me to the end because He is with me.
Thanks dad. I am going to claim your promise to me as I look to the year ahead of me.
