Recounted conversation by: Gabriela Yareliz
The hand of God is one that cannot be hindered. In ways that is very comforting. His plan will happen; God does not lie.
In a moment of faltering faith, I expressed the opinion that what will happen will happen, could I really change the future?
My mother then reminded me of Moses. God was angry with the people of Israel. They had broken the covenant.
Exodus 32: 9,10 tells us what God said to Moses:
.9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
And so God is ready to destroy these people. But suddenly, Moses begins to plead for the people.
Exodus 32:11
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does your wrath grow hot against your people, whom you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
Of course, Moses here is a type of Christ. He represent Christ as a mediator and saviour. Someone who didn’t give up on us, humanity. But here we can also see that Moses’ prayers and pleading with God change the course of history. God listens to Moses and has mercy on the people.
And so, if ever your faith falters, remember that God is good. He hears us and our prayers can change the course of history.
Prayer changes things.
“And the Lord said, “I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in My sight, and I know thee by name.”Still the prophet did not cease pleading. Every prayer had been answered, but he thirsted for greater tokens of God’s favor. He now made a request that no human being had ever made before: “I beseech Thee, show me Thy glory.”
God did not rebuke his request as presumptuous; but the gracious words were spoken, “I will make all My goodness pass before thee.” The unveiled glory of God, no man in this mortal state can look upon and live; but Moses was assured that he should behold as much of the divine glory as he could endure. Again he was summoned to the mountain summit; then the hand that made the world, that hand that “removeth the mountains, and they know not” (Job 9:5), took this creature of the dust, this mighty man of faith, and placed him in a cleft of the rock, while the glory of God and all His goodness passed before him.” Patriarchs and Prophets pg.328, Ellen G. White
When we are filled with the boldness of Moses; when we commune with God; when we are obedient and find favor in His sight; God makes all of His goodness pass before us.
GABRIELA YARELIZ 