3.088 Yet Thou Art There

In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth and the light of the world, reminding us that our lives are meant to preserve, illuminate, and point others to Him. This season on Savory Salt, we'll walk through the Old Testament, one verse and one thought each day. Perhaps these moments will add greater savor and brighter light to our lives as we seek to truly live as Savory Salt.

Hello, my friends. It's a new day with new opportunities. Choose ye this day whom you will serve.

There's so much in the story of Moses that makes me just connect with him. I hope that you're finding your own personal connections inside of our readings with Exodus chapters 1 through 6 this week. The story of Moses is fascinating as it includes all of the humanly parts of being called by the Lord.

I guess I'll use that term. I don't know if that's a term. But we watch the struggle of Moses and Aaron trying to figure out how the Lord's going to do this.

And there's several times when they're like, I think you got the wrong people to do this. I don't know how you're going to be able to do this. And it's inside of these moments that the Lord regularly stays with them.

And the last verse I wanted to share inside of this context for this week's readings, at least, is in Exodus chapter six. And I actually want to do it through a different lens. We are going to take our verse for today, but then I'm going to switch over to a talk.

I'm going to make sure the talk is in the link of the podcast episode here. It's a heavier one simply because of who the talk is from. It's from Elder Neal A.

Maxwell, who is typically very scientific in his approach. He's very academic in his approach, but I would absolutely encourage you to take the time to read through it. Let's do our verse and then do some of these connections with his talk.

Exodus 6, verse 6, the Lord has revealed himself to Moses in terms of saying this. He is Jehovah and he has the power to do these things. And he gives a promise in verse 6 that says this, Wherefore, say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from.

You figure out what the challenge needs to be done to be overcome. And yet here we get this promise and assurance from the Lord. Can you lean into it in the moment?

That is the question. That's what I stood on a little bit. That's what took me down the line of kind of looking at different conference talks.

And I came across this one by Elder Neal A. Maxwell from 1987 called "Yet Thou Art There." And he talks about, he uses a phrase in there I absolutely love. And it's a super short sentence, but he uses a phrase in there that he calls "macro love with such micro manifestations." The ability of God to be a God of the universe, this macro love, know all people, all kinds, and yet be able to show us in micro manifestations, his love for us personally.

He says this, there's a couple of spots I want to share with you. He says, Enoch, to whom the Lord revealed so much, praised God amid his vast creations, exclaiming reassuringly, "yet thou art there." The same special assurance can see each of us through all the seasons and circumstances of our lives. A universal God is actually involved with our small individual universes of experience.

In the midst of His vast dominions, yet He numbers us, knows us, and loves us perfectly. My friends, take some time to dive into this message, "Yet Thou Art There." I know that as Moses and Aaron went through their challenges, they continued, even through their doubts, to turn to the Lord and ask for help. And he revealed himself to them often.

He continued to be there. My friends, in our challenges and our struggles, can we remember and turn to the Lord and hold the space despite the vastness that it seems the Lord is over in all of the needing of all the things that have to be done for the universe. For us on a one-to-one basis, we can turn to Him and truly believe, "yet Thou art there." I love this message.

I love the reassuring talk that the Lord gives to Moses and Aaron, and may we apply it in our lives as well. That's all for today, my friends. You and I have come here now for such a time as this.

Step forward in faith and let's be savory salt. We will be here tomorrow and we hope you are too.