Today's reading: Numbers 7, 8, 9; Psalm 12, 42, 72, 102, 132; Proverbs 12
Numbers 7:89, And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him."
When I was reading this verse I was reminded of a story from a friend. She tells this story on herself. It is about a skit performed at their Church. She was sitting on the platform that was designed to be her kitchen in this skit. As she sits at the kitchen table she begins speaking, "Our Father". Then from the pa system comes a deep booming voice that says, "Yes". The my friend turns to the children in her skit and says, "Would you be quite! I am trying to pray."
Again, she starts, "Our Father in heaven". To which the answer comes booming over the pa system, "Yes". This scenario continues through the entire model prayer. It really looses something in my telling of the story. When she tells it I just roll in laughter yet knowing in the back of my mind that there is a moral lesson here for me and others.
Okay, okay. Why do I ramble today about a skit of days gone by? Simple, really. In the skit, my friend is attempting to pray but is interrupted by the playing of children and other things that I did not rehearse for you. God was speaking directly to her in the skit but each time she was distracted. This ought not to be in our lives. Thus the point of the skit, if I remember correctly.
Imagine being Mosed in our text for today. Imagine begin able to speak directly to God Himself. I get goosebumps just thinking about that possibility. Yet we do have 24 hour access to Him through the avenue of prayer.
You do pray don't you? Well, don't you?
