Chapter 80—God’s Presence a Reality
Dear Brother Q,
I am glad you are today in-----, and if you make God your trust
you will be the right man in the right place. Keep self out of sight;
let it not come in to mar the work, though this will be natural. Walk
humbly with God. Let us work for the Master with disinterested energy,
keeping before us a sense of the constant presence of God. Think of
Moses, what endurance and patience characterized his life. Paul, in
his Epistle to the Hebrews, says: “For he endured, as seeing Him who
is invisible.” The character that Paul thus ascribes to Moses does not
mean simply passive resistance of evil, but perseverance in the right.
He kept the Lord ever before him, and the Lord was ever at his right
hand to help him.
Moses had a deep sense of the personal presence of God. He was
not only looking down through the ages for Christ to be made manifest
in the flesh, but he saw Christ in a special manner accompanying
the children of Israel in all their travels. God was real to him, ever
present in his thoughts. When misunderstood, when called upon to
face danger and to bear insult for Christ’s sake, he endured without
retaliation. Moses believed in God as one whom he needed and who
would help him because of his need. God was to him a present help.
Much of the faith which we see is merely nominal; the real, trusting,
persevering faith is rare. Moses realized in his own experience the
promise that God will be a rewarder of those who diligently seek
Him. He had respect unto the recompense of the reward. Here is
another point in regard to faith which we wish to study: God will
reward the man of faith and obedience. If this faith is brought into the
life experience, it will enable everyone who fears and loves God to
endure trials. Moses was full of confidence in God because he had
appropriating faith. He needed help, and he prayed for it, grasped it
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by faith, and wove into his experience the belief that God cared for
him. He believed that God ruled his life in particular. He saw and
acknowledged God in every detail of his life and felt that he was under
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