Then He said to Moses "Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from afar. Moses alone shall come near to the Lord Exodus 24:1
What an invitation to receive or hear from The Lord. "Come up to me but come alone" This is King of Glory, Jehovah Jirah, El Shaddai, Elohim, Elelyon, the Great I Am, calling out to Moses to come close but come alone. There are many things I love to do with other believers in the Kingdom. Worship is one of them. I love to gather with others and worship the Lord. I love to serve with others and to carry out projects that promote Gods kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. But there are times when He calls me and He says come to me but come alone. There are times that he wants me all to Himself, alone, one on one.
He is knocking at the door of my heart with an invitation to fellowship with Him.
John received a similar call in Revelations 4:1 after this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in Heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this"
Isn't that awesome the door to heaven is open!!! And yet the invitation has to be given to "come up here" I can't go on my own accord. I have to be in a place to hear the invitation to come up. Then I have to be willing to go. The children of Israel didn't want that closeness with God they wanted Moses to go for them.
Who may climb the mountain of the Lord?
Who may stand in his holy place?
Only those whose hands and hearts are pure,
Who do not worship idols
and never tell lies.
They will receive the Lord’s blessing
and have a right relationship with God their savior.
Such people may seek you
and worship in your presence, O God of Jacob Psalm 24:3-6
The wonderful thing is that he makes the provision to cover everything that gets in the way of me ascending that hill. Clean hands and a pure heart are a prerequisite but not a hindrance. Thanks be to God that when He calls me He has already made provision for my unclean state.
He made provision for Isaiah in Isaiah 6: 5-7
5 Then I said, “It’s all over! I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. I have filthy lips, and I live among a people with filthy lips. Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7 He touched my lips with it and said, “See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven.”
Bless The Lord that by the blood of Jesus my sin has been removed and forgiven as far as the east is from the west.
Going back to John in Revelation there is a call to come up, its not a given that I will respond to that call. Revelation 3:20 "Look! I stand at The door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in,
If, If, you hear my voice? What gets in the way of me hearing his voice? Why the If? That answer is found in verse 19, it's the sin of indifference.
So be diligent and turn from your indifference.
Jesus says Look I'm standing at the door knocking but your not hearing because you really don't care. You’re indifferent to me. My sin of indifference kills any chance at all of me ascending that hill of God and entering in to His Holy place for an intimate time with just He and me together in fellowship.
The door of heaven is open and a voice is calling out to come on up, come see me, come spend some time with me, lets just visit a while.
Many things will try to distract us from responding to that invitation. The greatest distraction of all is my sin, my own feelings of unworthiness. But if the invitation is being given than provision is already been made for that so that’s not even an excuse. The real question is does spending time with "Our Father who art in Heaven" really appeal to me. Do I re ally care?
Only you can answer that question.
As I approach this next season of life I realize it will be very easy for me to be more concerned with what I’m doing for the Lord than I am being with the Lord.
Please Father guard my heart. Forgive me for the many times I hear your voice of invitation to come up and spend some time with you, but instead of taking you up on the invitation I turn and go another direction.
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