Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Exodus 19:9b-15
by: Leota Stevens.
Instructions were given to Moses to tell the people to begin to prepare themselves for personally meeting with God. It would not be a face-to-face meeting, rather God planned to reveal his presence audibly, from the thickness of a cloud that would descend on Mt. Sinai. He wanted to speak directly to his chosen people in order to bolster their faith and reinforce their allegiance to the God-ordained leadership of Moses. There are dark clouds that tend to settle over our lives at times, but they cannot obscure the presence of God from our hearts. As we prepare ourselves to meet with God during the hushed silence of those“foggy days,” we may hear his voice.