Alone with God (Part 3)
As I said from the beginning, God loves to talk to his people in private. He wants your full attention without distraction and when He has your attention, you can be sure that his ear is attentive to your words and you are in an ideal position to benefit from His wealth.
Today I will show you the impact of communion with God in the intimacy here based on Moses’ example. In Exodus 34, we see God giving instructions to Moses when he was still in bed (at night) certainly lying down side of his wife. He said: "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain "(Exodus 34: 1-2). Why the Lord wanted Moses on Mount Sinai while they could communicate when Moses was still at home? Because God could not tell him sacred things while he was still in bed. Moses had to leave his bed and heads to Mount Sinai away from his wife, his children and his neighbors. In the third verse, God clearly says: " NO ONE is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; NOT EVEN the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain "
This should open our spiritual eyes to understand that God wants an intimate relationship with his children and that happens when you get rid of everything to focus in prayer. Each of us should have his mountain (meeting place with God) in the intimacy which is the solitary place.
Moses spent 40 days on the mountain alone with God and something unusual happened when he left the mountain. His skin was radiant so much that no one dared to look at his face. In verse 29 it says, "When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was RADIANT because he had spoken with the Lord "(Ex 34: 29). Why was his face radiant? The answer is in the same verse: "Because he had spoken with the Lord." The 35th verse says that Moses had to put a veil over his face in order to communicate with the people and then removed the veil when he returned to the mountain.
The spiritual interpretation is that when we spend time with God in a solitary place, we leave the place with a spiritual radiance and the demons cannot stand it. But there is a condition in order to keep this radiance: We must ALWAYS return to the mountain i.e to the solitary place.
I hope that this teaching has opened our eyes to understand where most of our blessings and our spiritual strength are located: at the SOLITARY PLACE
God bless you
Chris Ndikumana
