The proper time and the just way!

(Ecclesiastes 8:5) “… The wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.”

The law of God was put in place by God through Moses on the top of Mount Sinai when he returned with two tablets of stone with ten law engraved on them, not penned by the mind of a man or with the ink of men but by the finger of God. the only true God, the great I AM, Jehovah God used His finger to engrave His law for mankind into stone, the birth of the written law, the account now recorded for us by Moses in the book of Exodus.

This was no chance meeting, but ordained and called by God, no different to our encounter with God the Father in and through His Son the Lord Jesus. Just as Moses met God in person on top of that Great Mountain, we too must come face to face with this glorious risen Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. It was such an awesome event that any man of beast that came into contact with that mountain died instantly, except for Moses. Unless one has been invited it would be impossible to stand before a Holy God. It was some meeting and special preparations were set in place…

“On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled. Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly. And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him in thunder. The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. And the LORD said to Moses, "Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to look and many of them perish. Also let the priests who come near to the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out against them." And Moses said to the LORD, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for you yourself warned us, saying, 'Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.'" And the LORD said to him, "Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest he break out against them." So Moses went down to the people and told them.” (Exodus 19:16-25)

Can you visualise this great spectacle, let you mind go and try and picture what was now taking place. On the one hand breath-taking whilst on the other a very fearful incident. Just one wrong move and you were dead! Let us not make the same mistake so many chose to make and that it to minimise this Awesome God. He is so magnificent, that fallen (sinful) flesh and blood cannot stand before Him and look upon Him and live. The tenacity of Moses pleads with God to see Him as He is and what is fascinating is God accommodates Moses request. But God has to hide him in the cleft of a rock…

“And the LORD said to Moses, "This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name." Moses said, "Please show me your glory." And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The LORD.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live." And the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock, and while my glory passes by I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back, but my face shall not be seen." (Exodus 33:17-23) 

Moses insistence reminds me of another great man and that is Jacob, although he was a liar and manipulator on the one hand, he had such a passion to be blessed by God that he was willing to wrestle with and angel even though it left him cripple; “And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, "Let me go, for the day has broken." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed." (Genesis 32:24-28) – Have we?

It’s the tenacity of both these men I ask you to question in your own life, have you been willing to make it your business to be blessed of God and have you come face to face with Him? We know that God has made a way for the whosoever! Although that encounter between God was with Moses and Aaron alone. It is now an open invitation for all. How so? God sent His only begotten Son to pay the price for sin and every sinner that calls out to him will be heard; "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” (John 3:16-18)   

The only question I have is this, have who realised that and have you in that sense asked God to forgive and remember you in and through His Son? We are unless in ourselves because of our sinful states, but because the Lord Jesus Christ has conquered sin on Calvary, He has made a way and He has wrestled with God the Father on our behalves, but we must recognise this truth and call out to Him in order to be bless by God. Have you called out to Him? Religion will not cut it! We must cry out to Him from the very depths of our souls. I therefore urge you cry out while you still have breath.

Wherever you find yourself He is just a cry away, praise the name of Jesus, as He accomplish that which no man could ever achieve, He has open the door to heaven, but thieves and robbers will not be welcomed, there is only one door where we will be allowed to gain access and that is through the person of Jesus Christ the Lord! As He alone has paid the price for our sin!

Once again I leave you with this thought and encouragement; “For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."” (Romans 10:13) – But call you must!

Just as Moses warned his people, I now warn you in “type” of the requirements needed for you to come face to face with God. Brett (Bandit) I pray for you even now.  

Signing off

Tyrone