We can learn about intimacy with God from looking at Moses and Jesus and their progressing from general awareness to profound face to face fellowship, emphasizing a journey from outward experience to inner transformation through revelation, faith, and dedication.
We hinder our intimacy with God by interns barriers like pride, unwillingness to change, and shame, as well as external distractions such as busyness, worldly desires, and people pleasing, along with spiritual obstacles like unconfessed sin, self-reliance, and doubt.
It can seem that with all the things against us, we are doomed to live away from God. That’s why it’s so important to make time for Him every day in prayer, and studying the Bible. We need to have humility, and repentance, and prioritization.
Moses maintained a place outside the camp to meet with God, where the Lord spoke to him, as a man speaks to his friend. He also frequently interceded for the Israelites, actively standing between them and God’s judgment, which deepened His reliance on God.
Despite leading millions, Moses remained the “meekest man on earth, prioritizing God’s will and instructions over his own, which allowed him to grow in understanding God’s ways.
Moses was not satisfied with just God’s promises, he demanded to see God’s glory and wanted to be in His presence. Moses tells God in Exodus 33:15, “If your presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.” Moses prioritized God’s company over the promise of His presence, without being promised that he would go into the promised land with his people.
Through these actions, Moses built a lasting, intimate friendship with God that was characterized by trust, dialogue, and a proud desire to know God’s ways.
Intimacy is built through consistency rather than a single event, we need to focus on inviting God into our ordinary moments.
From Pity to Praise 