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 wondering, "Why did God have Moses do this? After all, the Lord could hear what the people said—nothing escapes His notice; He knows all things.” All this is granted, but The LORD is a Covenant God. In other words, He operates with His people (church) through a Mediator (ultimately Jesus Christ). When God deals with the rest of the world, He does not employ an atoning Mediator; but when He communes with His church, He always does.
No one has any access to God except through Jesus. No one comes to God "directly.” The Lord may *only* be approached through a Perfect God/Man In-tercessor (Jesus Christ). 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"]
