Not without You

Then he said to Him, "If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. – Exodus 33v15

Moses had an attitude here that we far too often forget about. After asking God to show him the right way God replied that He would go with them and give them His peace. Moses’ responded with what seems like a logical and obvious answer – ‘If You are not going with us we don’t want to go.’

Obvious, right? I wish it was that obvious. How often do we ignore that concept completely when it comes to our own plans and ambitions? We have an idea that we think we work based on our assessment of a situation and we head off without any regard to what God wants us to do or if He is in the plans.

Taking God with us is far too often the last thing we think about when making our plans. In this we need to remember Moses and say ‘If God is not with this I don’t want any part of it!’