The Dream of Mine, the Glory of His

by Theodore Logia



On July 4th, 2008 I had a dream that was sort "Indiana "Jones like."
Through some old Bible Commentaries in a university that I had bought, I was
looking for some wild hidden truth that opened a life gate into the very
presence of God and his glory. As I thought of it when I awoke, I was kind
of wrestling and remembering more of the dream. As I thought of this dream
that is there is truth to it. The keys are not some wild magical winsome
keyed code. The truth is the very person of God found in the Psalms
themselves, as well as in all Scripture.



Knowing the true God with a true heart, whether in Psalms or any of the rest
of Scripture is an incredible adventure. We should jump into this adventure
all through our lives.



I searched out Exodus 33:14-19 just a short fews minutes after I woke from
this dream or

mini series of a dream tonight. And please understand the dream is not the
focus here,

but this meditation that I surmised after this dream is the real blessing to
me.



Moses was in the same wonderment that I am speaking of here. I am currently
teaching

on Psalms in a group that numbers five when we are all there. The
interaction of Psalms

with David and the other authors draws us into a series of meditations and
spiritual

wrestling match these men underwent with God in their theological and
practical

meditations.



God began the exchange in our text when 'He said, "My presence shall go with
thee,

and I will give thee rest"' (Exodus 33:14). God followed Israel in the
wilderness day and

night via a cloud and tower of fire. His presence was right there among
them and was not

ever lifted from them in that forty years journey. We have this same
promise found in

Hebews 13:5, where we are told "Let your conversation be without
covetousness; and

be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave
thee, nor

forsake thee." Our hearts are to be satisfied or content in all the things
we have, physical

and spiritual, because He is "there" where we are.



Moses I believe, desiring to draw closer to God responded to His promise as
he said,

"And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up
hence. For

wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy
sight? Is it

not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people,
from all the

people that are upon the face of the earth" (Exodus 33: 15, 16). Moses saw
the special

place God had designed for Israel and the intimacy that God intended.



It is the same intension God has designed and appropriated for the Christian
in His New

Covenant. God tells us in Jeremiah 31:31-33, "Behold, the days come, saith
the LORD,

that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house
of Judah:

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that
I took them by

the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they
brake, although

I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant
that I will

make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put
my law in

their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and
they shall be my

people." (Cp. Hebrews 8:8).



"And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast
spoken: for

thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name (Exodus 33:17).
Israel was

known by God, individually, I believe, just as was Moses. The same blessing
Israel had

in the old we have in the new. I hope also the same heart cry as well. We
see this heart

cry that Moses had in verse 18 "And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy
glory."



As I woke, and thought of the dream I had, I realized that this should be my
heart cry,

awake or asleep. "Show me Thy glory!" Not, 'what could an Indiana Jones
adventure be

like.' But rather, what should the intimate daily bathing in the Word of
God be like.



"Show me thy glory!"



To Moses God then said, "And he said, I will make all my goodness pass
before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will
be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will
shew mercy" (Exodus 33:19). God's goodness in His Sovereign Grace, His
glorious name, grace and mercy is in your hands daily. Pursue that glory
with your hearts, cry to God now, "Show me thy glory!" And He has, go look.