Exodus 19

Bible Gateway link Chapter 19

My Aunt had a saying; never climb a tree to high trying to get closer to God……….he might shake the tree!



I don’t know if I will get this out right but I am going to try.



We do not go to God’s level, he comes to ours. We are not worthy to climb to the same height as God. Yet HE comes to us daily. The foot of the Mountain is where the Israelites belonged, just like it is where we belong, at the feet of the Lord. We sing praises, and offer Glory up to God, not down to him. This is one of the wonderful yet harder things to grasp sometimes. God does not need us, there is nothing that we can do for God that He cannot do for himself. We need him, yet there is nothing he will not do for us, if we will glorify his name. For those that will follow the Lord, there is nothing that He will not do, he will part the seas, send plagues, he will deliver his people through any hardship, not because he has to, but because he loves us, he wants us to have every reason to shout his name in praise. We are here to experience the joy of loving God, and he will give anything in his power…..and that means more that we can comprehend…..as proof of his love. Even if that means giving his only Son



The Lord is going to make an appearance, by doing so this will again visually prove his existence, and residence among the Israelites. This will also remove any doubt that Moses is in fact a direct conduit for the Lord. There is more than just the boundary being set between God, they must clean their clothes, they must be consecrated, they must stay away form women. SO they have three days to prepare. I do not think that washing their clothes was because God wanted them to “look nice” I am of firm opinion that God does not care about your clothes. I think it is more about being an outward sign of inner cleanliness….. a new start. For the people to be consecrated they must get their thoughts on God, they must lay everything else in their life aside for a while, and concentrate on the glory of the Lord. AS for the no women part, I think this is much like the people who play sports who stay away from the opposite sex before a big game. It is not so much about the physical acts that take place between man and woman. It is more the mental aspect of it. The athletes want to “keep them out of their kitchen”. The people should be prepared to come before God with clean spirit, clean heart, and a clean mind. These are not sacrifices to be made for God; they are outward signs of our love for him that should bring us joy. Nothing that we do, or obtain in this would, not clothes, money, or physical companionship, can compete with the overwhelming joy that would be experienced by the opportunity, not just to give glory to God, but to offer that praise directly to Him when He comes directly to you.

Peace,
Brian