Knowing God

"Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people." -Exodus 33.13

Moses already speaks with God like no one else ever has. The two of them meet and speak face to face as friends. But look at Moses' prayer here. He wants to know the ways of God so that he might know God. He prays that he has found favor in the sight of God so that his prayer will be answered and he will continue to find favor in the sight of God. Moses, the man who had one of the most intimate relationships with God, simply wants to know God more.

Men, what is your prayer? Is it to simply know God's ways so that we may know Him? What if it was? What if our primary prayer was to know God more? We would have to live our lives in a manner that was worthy to receive that knowledge to begin with. But once we began to learn more about Him, we would want to continue to know more. And the more we learned, the more we would want to live it out, which leads to us finding favor in God's sight so that He can continue to teach us more of His ways.

Moses, the man of God, simply prayed that God would teach him more about Himself. Moses just wanted to know God more, and it's because of this that God was able to reveal so much to him. And the more Moses knew about God, the more he was able to instruct Israel about God and how to live.

If we would seek to teach others about God, we must first know Him ourselves. And the more we know Him the more we can share. The more we are able to share, the more we can help others grow. Will you seek to know God? Will that be your prayer?

"Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."

To God alone be the Glory!

Strength and Honor