Winter
1985
That I May Dwell Among
Them
Christ Kohut
Pinecrest Graduate
“And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell
among them.” Exodus 25:8
The heart of the Lord is revealed in this statement. This
desire is still the cry of the heart of the Lord today; for
a people who would know Him as He is, a people who would cultivate
a place of fellowship and communion with the Lord Himself.
Moses’ song states that “The Lord is my God and
I will prepare him an habitation” (Ex. 15:2).
Moses was set aside from the rest of Israel in that he had
cultivated an intimate devotional lifestyle. He had made a
place for the Lord in his heart.
Moses was forty years under the anguish of the seemingly
unfulfilled call of God on his life. The book of Numbers says
that Moses was the meekest man on the earth (Numbers 12:3).
The context of the original Hebrew indicates that he was “worn
out.” This forty years was God’s creative process
in the life of Moses; He was forming the deliverer that Moses
was to become.
Everything in Moses was reduced, as in David, to one thing
“Shew me now thy glory.” All ministry, all calling,
all anointing, all enabling, had been placed in new perspective.
The Scripture in Acts 7:22 says that Moses was learned in
all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and
deeds. He was emptied of all this, and at the burning bush
he said, “Pardon, Oh my Lord, not a man of words am
I . . . “ It was within the Lord’s heart to make
of Moses a great deliverer, but first, Horeb: the burning
bush, an emptying, and a refilling.