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Pleased!

Exodus 33.12 Moses said to the LORD, "You have been telling me, 'Lead these people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, 'I know you by name and you have found favor with me.'

13 If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you. Remember that this nation is your people." 

14 The LORD replied, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

15 Then Moses said to him, "If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.

16 How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people from all the other people on the face of the earth?" 

17 And the LORD said to Moses, "I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name."

God reassured Moses that He would continue to be with him and guide him. Can you imagine the thrill--perhaps the blushing of his cheeks--that Moses felt when the Almighty said, "I am pleased with you"?

I his book, Love Against Hate, Karl Menninger wrote about the role of the teacher in the life of a child. The child gives up his undisciplined, careless ways to please the beloved teacher so that he will not lose the love of the teacher. If you teach young children, you probably recognize how important this is. If you build a loving relationship with a child, the child will want to perform well to continue to enjoy this relationship. More tangible rewards cannot substitute for the real affection between teacher and student. The greatest reward we experience on earth is this knowledge that we are living in His presence and pleasing Him as we love and obey Him.

Deuteronomy 31.6 Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."

Dear Father, we are so grateful for the knowledge that we are pleasing You when we lovingly obey your commands. We are grateful to live in Your presence and to have the guidance from Your Word. May we live with this assurance and joy today. Help those who are hurting. We ask this in the name of Christ, the One who is with us. Amen.

1 John 5.14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 

15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

Only God can know HOW our prayers WORK but we believe HE answers. Please write me to add names to the prayer list and to report changes in status.

Let us be thankful and prayerful!

Love
Brad Forgy