God Is With Us...

Everyone needs to see the favor of God upon their lives. Sometimes this is hard to see, especially when you’re walking through one of those ‘valleys of the shadow of death’. During those times we typically wonder what happened to our favor and we doubt the presence of God in our situation. But He’s there! Truth is, the tough times underscores all the more our need to see God’s presence at work in us…
“Whenever Moses entered the Tent, the Pillar of Cloud descended to the entrance to the Tent and God spoke with Moses. All the people would see the Pillar of Cloud at the entrance to the Tent.” ~Ex.33:9-10
This verse is actually a reflection of the way things were for Israel a few days previous. But now, there was trouble in the camp. It was only days ago that they’d crafted the golden calf and danced in wild frivolity around it. Moses came back down from the mountain, ground up the golden calf into power, mixed it with water and made the people drink it. I’m not sure of the significance of that, but the people were now concerned that they’d done permanent damage to the visible presence of God that used to show up for them. Here’s the point; we all have a greater need we realize to see the Lord at work in our life! It affect our spiritual esteem. Just as Israel had confidence that God’s presence was with them, every person and every church needs to be able to say with confidence, GOD IS WITH US! ~Verlon