DAY 4 - JANUARY 8 - Worship: The Excellence of His Glory
Exodus 33:18 And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”
Exodus 33:19 Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” 20 But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” 21 And the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. 22 So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”
Moses lived as one who experienced ever-increasing levels of Glory. It began with the burning bush, it continued through the miracles of Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea, the incredible encounter on Mt Sinai (Mt. Horeb) that resulted in the 10 Commandments and the First Covenant. At this point, Moses now asks for an even greater glimpse of the Glory of the Lord.
The Hebrew word for glory is “Kabod”. It means weightiness, majesty, fame and even reputation. It is the essence and force of a person’s presence. The overwhelming weight of the Glorious Presence is an unsurvivable event. No one can see His face and live. However, the Lord placed Moses in the cleft of a rock and His glory passed by Moses. He allowed Moses to see the afterglow of His glory. That was enough to irradiate Moses’ face so that he needed to wear a veil to not unsettle the Israelites with God’s reflected glory.
Exodus 34:5 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” 8 So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
I love that when God revealed His Glory to Moses He declared His name and His character. His Glory is who He is! We can see the fullness of the Glory of God as Moses never could through our Lord, Jesus Christ. The excellence of His Glory is now ours to experience in the face of Jesus.
To host Glory is a responsibility we must recognize by honoring the leadership of the Spirit of Christ in and among us. This treasure is entrusted to us individually and corporately. Worshippers must learn to steward Glory. Our worship honors His Presence and is an ongoing appeal for ever-increasing displays of His Glory.
2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
2 Corinthians 4:6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Isaiah 35:2 [the desert] shall blossom abundantly and rejoice,
Even with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
The excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
They shall see the glory of the LORD,
The excellency of our God.
MEDITATION
• Have you ever experienced the Glory of His Presence in a way that profoundly impacted you? Write about the experience and how it changed you.
• How did you preserve that experience in the way you now worship?
• What could you do to honor the Presence of God in everyday life in a greater way?
Exodus 33:18 And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”
Exodus 33:19 Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” 20 But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” 21 And the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. 22 So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”
Moses lived as one who experienced ever-increasing levels of Glory. It began with the burning bush, it continued through the miracles of Egypt, the parting of the Red Sea, the incredible encounter on Mt Sinai (Mt. Horeb) that resulted in the 10 Commandments and the First Covenant. At this point, Moses now asks for an even greater glimpse of the Glory of the Lord.
The Hebrew word for glory is “Kabod”. It means weightiness, majesty, fame and even reputation. It is the essence and force of a person’s presence. The overwhelming weight of the Glorious Presence is an unsurvivable event. No one can see His face and live. However, the Lord placed Moses in the cleft of a rock and His glory passed by Moses. He allowed Moses to see the afterglow of His glory. That was enough to irradiate Moses’ face so that he needed to wear a veil to not unsettle the Israelites with God’s reflected glory.
Exodus 34:5 Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” 8 So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
I love that when God revealed His Glory to Moses He declared His name and His character. His Glory is who He is! We can see the fullness of the Glory of God as Moses never could through our Lord, Jesus Christ. The excellence of His Glory is now ours to experience in the face of Jesus.
To host Glory is a responsibility we must recognize by honoring the leadership of the Spirit of Christ in and among us. This treasure is entrusted to us individually and corporately. Worshippers must learn to steward Glory. Our worship honors His Presence and is an ongoing appeal for ever-increasing displays of His Glory.
2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, 8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
2 Corinthians 4:6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
Hebrews 1:1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Isaiah 35:2 [the desert] shall blossom abundantly and rejoice,
Even with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
The excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
They shall see the glory of the LORD,
The excellency of our God.
MEDITATION
• Have you ever experienced the Glory of His Presence in a way that profoundly impacted you? Write about the experience and how it changed you.
• How did you preserve that experience in the way you now worship?
• What could you do to honor the Presence of God in everyday life in a greater way?
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