Where Is Your Tent of Meeting?

Do you have a place where you meet with God? Alone, just you and Him? This question has come to mind after reading in Exodus today. Let's go there. Just pryor to Exodus 33:7, God was upset. While Moses was with God in the mountain, giving him the Ten Commandments, the Israelites had Aaron created a golden calf for them to worship because they thought Moses was never coming back out of the mountain.  He had been gone way too long for thier comfort.  

Now let's think on that for a moment.  How many times have we given up on God because He didn't work in our situations fast enough? Or how many times that when it seemed that our situations existed long enough for us to doubt that God was ever going intervene?  You know that doubt always creeps up in our minds and says, " I know the word says He will never leave you or forsake you..... so where is He now?"  You know, that kind of doubt.

Well, I promise you that you are not alone.  The enemy will try and discourage you, to make you think that you never see answers to your prayers and the situations that are around you. Self inflicted or not. You can look back in a previous entry called; The Promises of God.  You can see that God promises over and over in His word that He is there for us.  Galations 6:9 tells us, that we will reap a harvest if we faint not.  Now that sounds like to me, that at times we will have to wait. And if our heart and mind are not stayed upon Him, then it will not be long that fear has made its way to the front of your mind, and you will be suddenly convienced that there is no way out. Why do we do that to our selves!?!   Ok. You get what I'm saying......... back to the scripture.

Moses Meets with the Lord

⁷ Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp. 
 ⁸ So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle. 
 ⁹ And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.
¹⁰ All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door. 
 ¹¹ So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend.  And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.

So let's break this down.  I underlined key points in each verse.  Let's see what we find, shall we?

One statement from each verse, literally sums it up and leaves nothing out.  Vs 7 says, that anyone who wanted, could go out from the camp to the place designated to meet with God, when they wanted to.  They had access to God, that they did not utilize.  That sounds rediculous to think about it, yet we still do it today..... Don't we?

Vs8 says that when Moses went to meet with God, everyone watched from the door of their own tent.  I do not think that this place was ever a secret......

Vs9 says, that they saw the pillar of cloud at the door showed Gods presence while speaking with Moses....  I do not know about you, but I would hope to think that I would want to experience that as well if I witnessed it happening.  But how many times do we think that someone you know has a direct line to God that you do not?  Hmmm...

Vs 10 says that they believed enough to worship.  But sadly they didn't believe that God would meet them there, because they did not go for themselves.

Vs 11 says that with Moses' interaction with God, God spoke to Moses as a man speaks to his friend.

I do not know about you, but friend in this life, I can not go a day without my Abba.  I need to spend time with Him.  I need Him to speak into my life and my situations.  And He wants to be there!  I ask you to take a moment and ask yourself.  How much or how often am I letting God have the dialog in my life?

Dear Heavenly Father,
I thank You for each precious person that is reading this entry today.  I thank You, that You are their Way, their Truth, and their Life.  I pray that each one's spiritual eyes are opened and that they see You ready to act on their behalf.  I pray that they see You waiting on them, to give their situations to You so that You can work out all things for their good and Your Glory.  I praise You and thank You that it is Your presence in their life that makes all the difference; and that You truly want them to know that You will call them, "Friend".  Bless each one of them today where ever they are, In Jesus Name, Amen.

Dare to believe that He is able and willing to be all that you need.  All you need to do is Trust and Believe; and that through your obedience to His Word, will release His provision in your life !!  Blessings my friend.  Have a great day !