He hears all we say about Him when we call out His Name. He knows our every secret sin, and even every thought. He knows our weakness, and our strengths, and what we do with them. He took our place for the punishment we deserved. Before the Israelites entered the "Promised Land", Moses requested to see G-d and His Glory.
He was shown G-d's backside. Could this be what Moses saw? All G-d's Glory passed before him as the LORD covered Moses with His hand over the cleft in the Rock. And G-d declared " The LORD, the LORD, a G-d compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in kindness and faithfulness, extending kindness to thousands of generations, forgiving iniquity, transgressions and sin."His mercy and justice is still flowing toward us. He is a good G-d. The Glory of the LORD is still shining out from His Scars.
His Scars that were made by His brothers. G-d forgive us. We wound each other by our words and competitve actions. We push and shove each other to claim position at His right or left.
"Who can believe what we have heard?
Upon whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
For he has grown, by His favor, like a tree crown,
Like a tree trunk out of arid ground.
He had no form or beauty, that we should look at him:
No charm, that we should find him pleasing.
He was despised, shunned by men,
A man of suffering, familiar with disease.
As one who hid his face from us,
He was despised, we held him of no account.
Yet it was our sickness that he was bearing,
Our suffering that he endured.
We accounted him plagued,
Smittenand afflicted of G-d;
But he was wounded because of our sin,
Crushed because of our iniquities.
He bore the chastisement that made us whole,
And by his bruises we were healed.
We all went astray like sheep,
Each going his own way;
And the LORD visited upon him
The guilt of all of us." (Isaiah 53: 1-6.)
