It’s funny how things work out. It’s funny in the fact that sometimes God will build just one piece at a time. To be honest, I had no idea what direction I was going to head after my first message at the kick off. I just prayed. I went into prayer and asked God to lead. I asked Him what I should speak on and he began to pour out the vision. I had no idea that I would be Mr. Preacherman for the next 3 weeks.
Week one: Gen. 2- God looks into the dirt and says that it is of worth, and chooses that which is wiped away, brushed out, forgotten, and forms it, breathes life into it, and sets it into dominion over the earth.
Week two: Deut 30 – Choices. What choices are you making that bring life and what choices are you making to bring death?
Week three: Genesis 3 – Stepping out (or so I thought) Using symbolism of things at the beach to define our walk with God, we looked at the “Idea” of stepping out from behind the bush to declare, “Here I am God”
Week 4: Tonight – Exodus 33 – “True Encounters with a Living God”
Moses, looking at where he is, knowing that if God does not go with him he will be defeated, laughed at, leading around a bunch of Isrealites trying to reach some “Promised Land”, cries out to God. He says “Don’t send us if you aren’t going!” He says, “Teach me your ways.” He says, “Show me your glory God!”
Moses, was a man that recognized where he was, that understood the choices he would have to make in order to lead these people. He knew that what he needed was a true encounter with God. Moses was willing to be real, was vulnerable, was stepping out saying “God, here I am, I need you!” and God, God was waiting for him to ask…
In Malaysia I had probably one of the weirdest moments of my life. (http://williamdiefenbach.theworldrace.org/?filename=strange-days) You see, God had caused me to fall into a place of worship completely out of my own control.
It was a moment of weakness, a moment of pure vulnerability, a moment of true nakedness in which I stepped out from behind a bush and cried out “God TAKE IT!! Take it all!”
God, well, He was just waiting for me to come out from hiding.
Now the question is,
“Are you ready to come out from your hiding place, get naked, and have a “True God Encounter”?
