Saturday, November 01, 2008
The Goal
By Ramone - October 31, 2008
I got this picture on the way home after praying with some friends. It's about waiting on the Lord, and it has to do with how Israel had the goal of the Promised Land before them, but God took them to Sinai first and had them wait a looooong time. Moses was on the mountain 40 days! And in that time Israel got fidgity and didn't know what to do. What they ended up doing proved disasterous.
Sometimes God gives us a "goal" and a vision, and then He calls us to a kind of time of waiting, a "Sinai", and has us wait. He calls us in that time to seek His face (like Moses did) and receive what He wants to give us (like Moses received the law) -- to receive His heart for us!
In fact, this is the goal! Receiving His heart is the goal. This waiting on Him really breaks us, but it is this waiting on Him, this dependance on Him, this is the goal! The "Promised Land" where He is taking us is not the ultimate goal. Rather, what He does here at the mountain of waiting --breaking our desires to "get moving"-- this dependance on Him is the goal. Israel had trouble waiting for God and for Moses, and never got fully "broken" of her desire to "get going". It set her back 40 years and got her into trouble time after time as she moved onto the Promised Land.
Like Moses receiving the tablets from God at Sinai, He now calls us to come to Him, come before Him, lay down our plans, schedules, ideas, even the desires and hopes of going where He's promised to take us. We can't go "there" unless we submit to His lordship here, submit to being broken here. This is the crucial, critical position, because God's goal for us is relationship with Himself. We are brought here to learn this, because this is the goal-- to learn to submit to Him, wait upon Him, and receive His heart. Getting "there" isn't the goal.
# posted by Ramone @ 10:57 AM 
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