Sabbath: “Please, Show Me Your Glory”
Daily Lesson for Sabbath 13th of September 2025
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Read for This Week’s Study: Exodus 33:7-23; Exodus 34:1-35; Deuteronomy 18:15,18; John 17:3; Romans 2:4; John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 3:18.
Memory Text:
“And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation’ ” (Exodus 34:6-7, NKJV).
We all need to grow in our walk with God. Without growth, we are dead. The apostle Peter declares: “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen” (2 Peter 3:18, NIV). We need to be willing to grow. We are daily in God’s university, where there is no graduation but a constant learning process. In each stage of growth, you can be perfect if you allow God to mold you into the person that He calls you, in Christ, to be.
Think of a school. If first-graders learn how to read and count to 100, they receive a passing grade because their knowledge is perfect at that stage and scale of growth. However, if this same level of knowledge, and no more, was detected in a high schooler, it would indicate a colossal failure in his or her education. It is similar with our growth in the grace and knowledge of God. In each stage of our development, we can be as perfect in our sphere as Christ was in His.
This week we study how Moses, through knowing and following God’s instructions, was growing in his walk with the Lord.
*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, September 20.
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I am not a big fan of air travel. It is utilitarian. You get stuffed into an aluminium tube with barely enough space to breath, you get food that is barely palatable, If you talk, everyone glares at you. I thought that sitting near a window would be great, but planes fly so high that it is like you are in a sphere of sky. I like to travel in our little motorhome. If you see something interesting, you stop to look at it. If you feel hungry you stop and cook up a meal of your favourite food. If you feel sleepy, you lie down on the bed, If you need a shower, you have one. It is really fun to travel and you don’t feel the pressure of being on time to make connections.
And that is what is so good about the Christian journey. It’s not about the destination. It about the journey. And if you think that heaven is a destination, you have missed the point. It is just the beginning of a new journey. Christianity is not about reaching a goal, it’s all about living in partnership with God now. That is how others will see His Glory.
Jesus said: