How Long Since You Marveled in God's Presence? Either in a Worship Service or Prayer Time? I Hope It Is So in Your Life! A Point to Ponder . . .

Moses before the burning bush in God's presence with his shoes off!

A Devotional for Friday September 5, 2025

From the Pen of John Bunyan

Author of Pilgrim's Progress

All Marvel in God’s Presence

“He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”

Luke 8: 25.

What, what shall I say? God’s presence is renewing, transforming, seasoning, sanctifying, commanding, sweetening, and enlightening to the soul! [There is] Nothing like it in all the world[!] His presence supplies all wants, heals all maladies, saves from all dangers; is life in death, heaven in hell; all in all. No marvel, then, if the presence of and communion with, God, is become the desire of a righteous man (Psalm 26: 9). To conclude this, by the presence of God being with us, it is known to ourselves, and to others, what we are. “If thy presence,” said Moses, “go not with me, carry us not up hence [from now on]. For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight, is it not in that thou goest with us? So shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth” (Exodus 33: 15-16).

They are then best known to themselves. They know they are his people because God’s presence is with them. Therefore, he saith, “My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest” (Exodus 33: 14). That is, [to] let you know that you have found grace in my sight and are accepted of me. For if God withdraws himself or hides his presence from his people, it is hard for them to bear up in the steadfast belief that they belong to him. “Be not silent to me,” O Lord, David said, “lest I become like them that go down into the pit” (Psalm 28: 1). “Be not silent unto me,” that is, as he has it in another place, “Hide not thy face from me. Hear me speedily, O Lord,” (Psalm 143: 7).