"God, Please Show Me Your Glory"

We have many modern prophetic voices that are saying God is going to show us His Glory.  

What can we expect to see when His Glory comes? 

Will we find ourselves in unity with God or opposing God Himself when his glory comes?  

To answer those questions... 

Let's look at the encounter of Moses when he asked God to see His Glory. This eyewitness account is found in Exodus chapters 33 & 34

”And Moses said, “Please, show me Your glory.” Exodus 33:17-18

What do you think Moses expected?  

Well, what would you expect? 

A bright light, with golden rays emanating from his being, a sparkling aura with some fog-like mist rising from the earth? 

Let's look at Moses' eyewitness account you might be surprised at what He experienced during this encounter.  

Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you.   I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” And the LORD said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.

“So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. “Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.”

Now the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. Exodus 34:5

“The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, “keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”  v7

So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. v8

So the bottom line here is that when God's glory comes He will proclaim His Name " and what He proclaimed was forgiveness of:

• Iniquity - doing things our way, not God's way
• Transgression - an act in direct violation of God's written laws
• Sin - Falling short of the glory of God = not forgiving other of these three things. 

Are you wanting to see corrupt leaders lose their jobs, and go to jail?  When we look around at the current political situation and hear the prophets saying the glory of the LORD is coming. We should not anticipate seeing grave Judgment, or Justice, we should position our expectations to see God proclaim His name "The Lord, the Lord gracious and compassionate" and to offer forgiveness of iniquity, transgression, and sin to those who will repent when the goodness of the Lord is seen.

Jesus had to correct this perception with his disciples. Here is his instruction to them but also to us living today from Matthew 5:44.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’“But I say to you,

• love your enemies,

• bless those who curse you,

• do good to those who hate you, and

• pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,

• “that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Who do you consider your enemies? The Socialists?, Communists?, Lefties? Conservatives? Democrats? Republicans? the Police?, Antifa?, BLM?, CRT?

Who is cursing you? 

Who hates you? 

Who is persecuting or spitefully using you?

Whoever they are, they are the bullseye, the center of your target for prayer! "Pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you"

Pray that they would encounter ALL the Goodness of God.

Bless them to encounter the goodness of God that leads to repentance. 

Romans chapter 2 brings up some important considerations for church people.  

Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge, practice the same things.  But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.  And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God? 

Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance? 

But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who “will render to each one according to his deeds” eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; Romans 2: 1-9

For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? 1 Corinthians 5:12

For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died;14

1 Corinthians - our ministry of reconciliation

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians
5: 14, 18, 19

Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. v 18

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Various writings from the past
The Road Not Taken
At Home In MN