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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
Deuteronomy 10:10, “And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days and forty nights.”
Exodus 33:11, “And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.”
Moses prayed to the Lord in Exodus 33:18, “Please, show me Your glory.”
Then he spent time in God’s glory with an unveiled face (Exo. 34:34), and he was changed.
In Deuteronomy 10:10 when Moses refers to his time with God, he says, “I stayed in the mountain.”
The original Hebrew word for stayed implies “I lingered in the mountain.”
This indicates that Moses realized the necessity of staying and even lingering with God on the mountain.
Exodus 33 and 34 provide the entire background of the New Testament word “beholding” (2 Cor. 3:18).
Thus, for us to know what this beholding is, we need to be impressed with Moses’ stay with the Lord.
What stands out in Moses’ experience of beholding the Lord and talking to Him, even face-to-face as an intimate friend (Exo. 33:11), is the time he spent–forty days and forty nights.
It took this specific length of time for Moses to soak in the glory of God and to come down transformed.
Of course, this transformation was only to the degree of the Old Testament glory.
Nevertheless, there was a glory.
It is significant that Moses’ record includes the amount of time he spent with the Lord on the mountain.
This helps us to see that time is involved in the “beholding” mentioned in 2 Corinthians 3:18.
We must realize that beholding the Lord to be transformed takes time.
Being a person that makes time to be with the Lord is the sure way to be transformed into His image.
Transformation does not happen superficially.
It takes time.
And not only so, it takes the right kind of time–spending quality time with the Lord.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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