Childlike Listening
The Old Testament has the following description of Moses in the presence of the
Lord:
And when Moses went
into the tent of meeting to speak with the Lord, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was
on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim; and it spoke to him.
Numbers 7:89
There are a couple of things that caught my interest in
this passage. Notice that Moses did not go to speak to God but to speak with
God. So much of the time our prayers and our praise and our worship are
uni-directional. We are talking to God. But Moses went to meet with God. He had the expectation that he
was going to speak with God. The writer of the book of Hebrews says that
for whoever would draw near to God must
believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews
11:6
As we draw near to God, we too need to come in faith –
faith believing that you are going to meet with someone real and faith that He
will reward you in some way as you seek Him.
A Jewish rabbi recently taught me the other thing about
this
passage. In Jewish tradition, cherubim are angels with child-like faces.
Art has followed that tradition, creating hundreds of sculptures and paintings
depicting cherubim as these little angels with the faces of children. Notice that God spoke to Moses above the mercy seat and between the two
cherubs. Jewish tradition taught that God spoke to Moses between these two cherubs to teach us that if we want to hear from God, we must
become like little children.
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| Artist's depiction of the Big Bang |
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