Have You Ever Begged God To See HIM? Moses Did! He Saw JEHOVAH'S Backside, And God Told Him Of His Mercy! And He Will Be Merciful To You As Well-If You Seek Him and Ask! A Point to Ponder . . .

Moses in the cleft of the rock where he could see The Lord as He past by!

A Devotional for Friday October 24, 2025

"The LORD—The Merciful"

“The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness’”

Exodus 34: 6.

When Moses said, “I beseech thee, show me thy glory,’ the answer was, “I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee” (Exodus 33: 18-19). And when he came indeed to make proclamation, then he proclaimed: “The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty” (Exodus 34: 6-7) That will by no means clear them that will not come to me that they may be saved.

See here, if it is not by himself accounted his glory to make his goodness, all his goodness, pass before us. And how can that be, if he saves not to the uttermost them that come unto God by him? For goodness is by us no ways seen but by those acts by which it expressed itself to be so. And, I am sure, to save, to save to the uttermost, is one of the most eminent expressions by which we understand it is great goodness. I know goodness has many ways to express itself to be what it is to the world; but then it expresses its greatness when it pardons and saves, when it pardons and saves to the uttermost. My goodness, Christ says, extends not itself to my Father, but to my saints (Psalm 16: 2-3). My Father has no need of my goodness, but my saints have. Therefore, it shall reach forth itself for their help, in whom is all my delight.