PrayerBits for Monday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Monday

Scripture lesson: Exodus 34:29-35 The Shekinah

Time to reflect: The Biblical people felt that God's “Glory” (a stan­dard English translation of Shekinah) was physical and that if you came into God's “Glory” if you lived at all would be physically changed by it – as in this story. God's “Glory” would destroy, automatically, any imperfection and sin in anything it came into contact with. This is a powerful concept. As is often the case, the English translation is weaker than the original.

Moving Through The Day: Picture what it would be like to come into God's presence. Even if you don't think in terms of a physical Shekinah or “glory” it sure can't just be a casual, everyday kind of meeting.

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the LORD. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him. But Moses called to them; so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and he spoke to them. Afterward all the Israelites came near him, and he gave them all the commands the LORD had given him on Mount Sinai.

  When Moses finished speaking to them, he put a veil over his face. But whenever he entered the LORD's presence to speak with him, he removed the veil until he came out. And when he came out and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, they saw that his face was radiant. Then Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.