March 25, 2009 - Exodus 34

Moses had some very special encounters with God, maybe more than any other man. Exodus 34 records another one of those instances. The Lord comes down in the cloud and it says that He “stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord.” To stand in the very presence of God and hear God proclaim His name to you would certainly qualify as very special encounter in my book. But God goes on from there and uses the next two verses to proclaim more about Himself. It is almost as if God is introducing Himself to Moses. So what was Moses response? Like all of us will do one day, he “bowed to the ground at once and worshiped.” Is it any wonder that, later in this chapter we see that when Moses went down from the mountain, Aaron and the children of Israel noticed that Moses’ face was radiant? Coming near to God rubs off on you!