What Did Moses Hear?

In my last post I wrote about Moses’ mountain top experience and how God’s children have the opportunity to experience mountain top experiences daily because of God’s Spirit living in us. Knowing this helped me deal with being jealous of Moses as I realized there just might be something better than a mountain top experience. But I also have to admit that in Exodus 34 Moses experienced something truly unique. This was the second time that Moses went up the mountain to receive the commandments and what God revealed to Him is very important to all of us who want to follow the Lord.

Moses destroyed the original tablets when he broke them at the foot of the mountain after seeing the golden calf that Aaron and the people of Israel created (Exodus 32). In chapter 34 the LORD tells Moses to cut two more tablets of stone and to bring them up to the top of Mount Sinai, which Moses does. While Moses was on the mountain the LORD descended in a cloud and stood with Moses. The Bible says the LORD then “...proclaimed the name of the LORD.”

I hope to write a few posts looking at this proclamation. What did the LORD say and what does it mean? I think this is important as in this “name” God reveals His nature, helping Moses (and us) understand who God really is. I hope you will join me in this study as we learn who God is in His own words as He proclaimed:

“The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffereing, and abounding in goodness and truth, 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.”   Exodus 34:6-7

What’s Better Than A Mountain Top Experience?

In both Exodus 24:9-18 and 34, God invites Moses to come up on Mt. Sinai to meet with Him which must have been one of the most awesome experiences anyone could have. I used to get really jealous when I read these passages. I mean, this would be a dream come true to hear the voice of God and to be able to stand in His cloud as He reveals His glory. Such an experience would truly be life altering as it was for Moses and it would be one of the greatest opportunities on earth. Imagine getting the chance to have a one on one with the Creator of the universe. I used to cry out for a mountain top experience like this one…that is until God showed me what I have every day and right at this moment.

Jesus ended the Great Commission with:

“...and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Matthew 28:20 (NKJV)

Hebrews 13:5 says:

Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

If you are a Christian then God is with you! In fact, He lives in us through His Spirit:

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NKJV)

God is with us and He lives in us. This is the blessing that comes with receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior. And because He is with me, mountain top experiences come more often than I could have ever imagined.