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Let Me Alone

Exodus 32:10

"Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation."

What an interesting statement we find in this verse when God tells Moses to "...let me alone,..." This is the all-powerful God telling a weak human to leave Him alone. This is the Creator of the Universe saying to the created to leave Him alone. This is Jehovah God telling mankind to leave Him alone. God was saying that He wanted to destroy Israel for their sins, but Moses was hindering Him from doing so. In other words, it was finite man who was keeping an infinite and all-powerful God from destroying a nation. What power man must have over God! Yes, God is more powerful than any person, but God is teaching us that we have the power to stop Him from exercising His judgment upon a nation or person if we will intercede for them.

God said in Ezekiel 22:30, "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none." Israel can thank God that Moses was the one who stood in the gap on their behalf to keep God from destroying them in the wilderness. If it were not for Moses who stood in the gap, then Israel would have been destroyed.

You will notice that it was not Moses' preaching that kept God from destroying Israel, but it was his prayer life that kept God from destroying Israel. It was not his status in society that kept God from destroying Israel, but it was the fact that in his prayer life he stood in the gap to keep God's judgment from falling upon his nation. It was not the buildings that Moses built that kept God from destroying Israel, but it was his interceding prayer to God that kept God's judgment from falling. Moses decided that he would bother God until he could stay God's judgment from falling.

Every nation needs a Moses to stand in the gap and hinder God from judging it. I ask you, is God asking you to leave Him alone from judging your nation? Are you that person who is standing in the gap with prayer asking God not to destroy your nation? If God decided to send His judgment upon your nation, are you standing in the gap and keeping Him from exercising His judgment? Christian, your nation needs you to get serious about hindering God and asking Him to stay His judgment. It would be sad if you were too busy with worldly affairs to hinder God from destroying your nation.

Furthermore, there are people who are about to face God's judgment that need you to hinder God from doing so. Are you like Abraham who hindered God for a short time to keep Him from destroying Lot and his family? Griping and complaining about how your spouse is living is not the answer. The answer is for you to stay at God's throne asking God to speak to their heart and change them. The answer is not for you to constantly preach to your backslidden child every time you see them. The answer is for you to hinder God by begging Him to change their heart. The answer is not for you to gossip about what is happening in your church. The answer is for you to hinder God to change the hearts of those who have the power to make the changes.

How we need people to hinder God for their nation, church and family. It would be sad that God judged your nation, church or family because there was no one who would stand in the gap to hinder Him. Would you be that one like Moses to hinder God for your nation, church or family so that He would have to ask your permission to get out of the way so He could judge them? Become that one today that intercedes to God on behalf of your nation, church and family.