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Day 2: Follow the Lord Into the Unfamiliar

How do we enter the Lord’s presence, the sacred place? Notice in the verse that “anyone who sought the Lord would go out.” If we are going to truly seek the Lord, we must “go out,” as did Moses and the others who sought the Lord. We must pitch our tent “a good distance from the camp.” What camp is this? For Moses, as well as for us, it is the “camp of familiarity.” Is there inherently anything wrong or sinful with the things that are familiar? No, not in themselves, but you will remember that when Jesus told His disciples to follow Him, He called them to leave the familiar pattern of their lives for extended periods and be alone with Him (Matt. 19:27; Luke 14:33). Why? Because He knew that men, by nature, are unconsciously governed by the familiar. If He would expand us to receive the eternal, He must rescue us from the limitations of the temporal.