Day 28 with Moses: Lord wants us to live with Him.

“You in Your mercy have led forth The people whom You have redeemed; You have guided them in Your strength To Your holy habitation.”

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭15:13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

I think one of the saddest things about elderly people who have dementia, or other types of memory loss, is the fact that they no longer feel at home where they are living. Even those who are still in their actual home come to feel that they are in a strange place and desire to go where they feel at ease again. They want to go home. I had a dear family member who-although still living in the home in which they had lived for the last 40 years—no longer felt comfortable in their surroundings and repeatedly expressed the desire to go home.

We’ve all heard the expression, “There’s no place like home.” Indeed, we all have an inward desire to be somewhere we belong, somewhere that is ours, somewhere we call home.

But, even for those of us who are blessed to have a dwelling that is our home, at times, on a deeper level, we still yearn for more. Now, the Christian knows what that “more” is we seek; it is to be in the presence of the Lord. The Psalmist expressed it like this:

“One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭27:4-5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

You see, we were created to be in fellowship with the Lord, to share a home with Him. Sin came and made us like the Prodigal who Jesus referenced in His parable.

“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.” ’ “And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.”

‭‭Luke‬ ‭15:17-20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ, He has welcomed us home! Even now we have access to the Spirit of God and we look to the day when we will forever dwell in His presence.

“Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”

‭‭John‬ ‭14:1-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Can you wrap your mind around the fact that the God Man, the King of kings and Lord of lords, has gone to prepare a special place just for us? What a wonderful home awaits us with the Lord!

Additionally, although we look for that eternal home with the Lord, even now—in having access to His presence—we are afforded a wonderful foretaste of the comfort of His home.

Today we find Moses expressing the fact that the Lord leads us to His holy habitation. Now, we know that this was, in part, an allusion to the Promised Land to which the Lord led His people those 40 years. But, far beyond seeing an earthly home, Moses also looked over the ages and saw an eternal habitation to which the Lord would lead us.

Interestingly, Psalm 91 (with which most Christians are familiar) is actually thought to have been written by Moses, or written by David from Moses’ words. It begins like this:

“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭91:1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

It’s not far-fetched to believe that these are Moses’ words given what he wrote in Psalm 90:

“Lord, You have been our dwelling place in all generations.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭90:1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Yes, The truth is the Lord has always been our home. Thank God He didn’t allow the separation of Sin to remain! And—while we share a wonderful foretaste of His awesome presence—we look to the day when we will dwell in His house forever.

For today let us discover what Moses discovered:

The Lord wants us to live with Him.

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