Today, I am reading and commenting on  Exodus 33-35.

After the incident with the golden calf, God suggests to the Israelites that, while He will send an angel in front of them to guide them, He may not accompany them on their journey to the Promised Land.  The Israelites beg Him to remain with them and stopped wearing any sort of ornaments (as God commanded them to do while He decided what to do with them).  Then Moses spoke with God and requested that He go with them (I am unclear if the order these things are recorded in is the order in which they happened).  Then we come to what today stands out to me.  God tells Moses,

I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.

Let us claim that message for ourselves.  God knows us by name.  Think about what the means.  It is an even bigger deal than if the President of the United States, or Bill Gates, or Donald Trump, or whatever big name celebrity you might choose to name, called out you out by name when giving a speech to a large crowd.  Out of the approximately nine billion people on this planet today, you are important enough to God that He knows your name (and not only does He know your name, but the one that only those closest to you use).  But there is more to this message than that.  If we throw ourselves on His mercy so that He might be please with us, He will do everything that we ask.

Side Note: when I started this I was going to also comment on God hiding Moses in the cleft of the rock, but after writing this I think this is the place to stop.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.