Today's encouragement comes from Exodus 19:8b & 9b, where we read these words:
" . . . So Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD. . . . So Moses told the words of the people to the LORD."We might be thinking, "Why did God have Moses do this? The Lord could hear what the people said—nothing escapes His notice; He knows all things.” All this is true, but The LORD is a *covenant* God. In other words, He oper-ates with His people (His church) through a Mediator (ultimately Jesus). When God deals with the rest of the world, He does not employ a Mediator; but when He communes with His church, He does.
No one has any access to the one true and only God, except through Jesus Christ. No one comes to God "directly.” God will *only* be approached through a Perfect Intercessor (Jesus). Moses (here in Ex. 19) is a "type" of Christ. Outside of our Lord Jesus Christ there is virtually no way to the True God.
[Puritan quote of the day: "This [True] God is joy in sadness, light in darkness, life in death, heaven in hell.” —Thomas Shepard, in, "The Sincere Convert"]
