After the preaching of God's Word, we sing Psalter 265. Beloved congregation of the Lord, what do you think best describes who God is for his people in Exodus? The Redeemer, the Lawgiver, or the Homemaker? And of course, a related question is, which best describes God's role in your life? The Redeemer, the lawgiver, or the homemaker? We tend to see Exodus as about God's deliverance and about the giving of God's law. God saves his people by blood and by power from slavery in Egypt, from their own guilt, and tells them how to live at Mount Sinai. And we see the Christian life similarly. God saves His people through the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross, and now He tells us, now it's your turn. Do this and don't do that. This is a deep misunderstanding. not only of Mount Sinai and the place of the law in the life of the people of God, and of the Exodus, but also of your life and God's place in it. Because the missing part, the part to which all these others aim, the redemption and the law-giving, are all given so that God can dwell in harmony and safety among His people. The climax of the book of Exodus is not the ten plagues that destroyed a world superpower and made it possible for enslaved Israelites to be God's freed people. The climax is not the Red Sea where God drowns the obstinate Pharaoh and his armies. The climax is not even the giving of the Ten Commandments and the law on the top of Mount Sinai. All of these things are means to an end. They're steps along the way. The goal to which all of them aim, the destination of Exodus and the destination of the Christian life and the life of the church, is God the homemaker who lives with and in His people. God whose presence is our light and our life, our shade at our right hand, our guide, our keeper, the author and finisher of our faith, who is leading us to the promised land on the new earth. Compare it to a marriage. The wedding's not the end goal. The big deal is not the signing of the license and the vows you make and the banquet and then the out-of-town guest, because all of that stuff's done in a day. No, the big deal is that the wedding is the doorway to life together, a life of love and intimacy and sharing of everything, everything you have and are. And God has this goal too. That's the purpose of His covenant. He establishes and advances His covenant and works in His people with the goal of being the homemaker in your entire life and everywhere you go and wherever you are in the joyful seasons of life and in the difficult seasons of life. Let's explore it with this theme, the Lord's presence dwelling with his people. We see the glorious wonder of his closer presence, the overwhelming majesty of his presence, and the complete sufficiency of his presence. So the Lord's presence dwelling among his people, first then the glorious wonder of his closer presence. This whole text is about two things. It's mentioned in every verse. the cloud of God's glorious presence, filling the tabernacle and coming to dwell there. The cloud is mentioned five times in each verse, and the dwelling is also mentioned four times, but we don't notice it because we just read the word tabernacle and we think that's the technical word for the tent. But in the Hebrew, the word tabernacle means dwelling place, home, residence. It is the dwelling place of meeting, that's what the Hebrews heard, where God meets with his people. The God of glory is accomplishing what all his redemptive plans and acts aim for, to bring his glory so close that that glory is at home among his people. Now that is a big deal for three reasons. First of all, God in his glory coming home to his people is important because that is salvation. Salvation is not just what you're saved from, bondage, the guilt of sin. But far more importantly, it's what you're saved to. Living with God, that is the God of glory, making his home with you. What a beautiful picture that is. Israel has come such a long way geographically and spiritually. They came from bondage, they came from oppression, they came from slavery, they came helpless. They came as sinners because they deserve the 10 plagues every bit as much as the Egyptians. And God made a difference after several plagues where there was none by nature. They were sinners deserving God's wrath on Passover night when the angel of destruction came, but God supplied the body and blood of the Lamb to smear over their doors and for them to eat and drink. And they were stuck when the pursuing Pharaoh chased them, but God opened a way where no one else could have right through the sea. They needed now also the thunder and the majesty and the liberation of the law of God, and so he reveals himself as lawgiver too. But none of that is what God is ultimately after. The point of all of this, the redemption to set them free, the law to teach them how to live harmoniously, all of that is so that God's glory would come and live among his people. What a moment this is in Exodus. For the first time since the Garden of Eden, when God walked with Adam and Eve twice a day before the fall, God now dwells in visible form among his people. His glory has come home. This is the most profound, intimate, and wonderful moment in the entire book of Exodus. In Exodus 24, some of Israel's elders could go partway up the mountain and eat and drink with God, and they could just see the feet of someone on the throne. But now God comes down from the mountain to live with them. and joins them where they live so that their whole life, their whole camp, their whole congregation is organized around the presence and dwelling of the Lord. They are the people of His choice. They are the people of His possession. They are the people of His delight. God's glory, come home. This is the advent of His glory among His people. This is Emmanuel, God with us. Now they still have a lot to learn to become the kingdom of priests that God wants them to be. They still have a lot of growing to do in how they see each other, but they can learn all these things because God's glory lives among them in tangible, visible form. And this is why Moses, in the oldest psalm of the Bible that we just sang, Psalm 90, calls God this, God is our eternal home. Child of God, you realize that this is how God sees you, as His home. In saving you from your sins from death, God is doing more than saving you from. He defeats your death and redeems you from your sins so that His glory can come home to the place He created for it to live. Your heart and your daily life and your congregation. The tabernacle was the mobile temple, and even the temple itself was temporary. 1 Corinthians says this to the people of God, do you not know that you are the temple of the living God? And that's spoken not to individuals but to the congregation of the Lord. The living God dwells. God's glory coming home to be in you and with you. Before you think of anything else, just stop for a moment and let that sink in. The God of glory come home to you. You see that sometimes a couple is just married and they're so happy together and he's not going home for supper. He's going home to the woman who is his home. And God sees His people like that. His glory comes home. Jesus said it this way, if any man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will make our home with him. That's why this is a very big deal. But there's another reason it's a big deal. You could say, in a sense, God's glory has come back home. This is amazing grace. Because right before this in the book of Exodus, Israel had promised in chapter 24 to be obedient and to do all the things that the Lord had said. And then in Exodus chapter 31 and 32, they had committed spiritual adultery by making a golden calf, bowing down to it and saying, this is the God who brought you out of Egypt. And Aaron the high priest had led them in this insanity and this blasphemy. And they committed liturgical dance and idolatry, and if you read the passage, as I just rechecked it, they were dancing naked, there was sexual sin, there was all kinds of perversion happening because that's what pagan worship did. All of that. Spiritual adultery on their honeymoon, in the presence of their bridegroom, to his great indignation and grief. You would say, humanly speaking, a marriage like that is done. But that's not the end of the story. God doesn't say, I don't need a congregation like that, I am out of here, because he was actually testing Moses. Moses, are you as committed to this congregation as I am? Moses, let me destroy them and you and I will start over. And Moses says, no, not me, these people. It took some doing, because Israel wouldn't even be here unless God had supplied a mediator, Moses, to intercede. It wasn't a quick, well, yeah, forgive us our sins, amen. It was tense. Because God said to Moses, I can't go with you. I can't live among people like this. You can just go off to the promised land. And Moses says, Lord, I'd rather live in the desert with your presence than in the promised land without it. Without your presence, there's no point to us being a congregation. Remember, Lord, your great name. Without your presence, we have nothing. And God, because that's why it was set up that way, that the mediator and the role of the mediator in the presence of God would become clear. Because God had every intention of staying faithful to his people who had just cheated on him. God hears that intercession and forgives them and says, I will go with you. My presence shall carry you from here and I will give you rest. Amazing grace. With New Testament eyes, it took Christ dying on the cross to satisfy the righteous wrath of God. It took Christ saying it is finished before God could forgive sin without giving up on His holiness and live with and in sinners. God who laid on Him the iniquity of His wandering people who are so faithless they can't even be faithful on their honeymoon to the only perfect bridegroom God has ever sent into this world. Christ who prays, Father, forgive them. Father, I will that they come live with me to see my glory, the glory I had with you from before the foundation of the world. That's what I want for them. I want my glory to come home to them. And there was Israel having been deeply humbled at Mount Sinai after all of this. This humbling lesson, they needed it. Their eyes are opened for their own sinfulness and the awful consequences of sin. They need to face God's holiness now there in the camp, not just as a reality in the heavens and not just as a reality on Mount Sinai, but a force on earth right where they live. They need to realize that their standing before the Lord as a congregation is a matter of grace, and grace alone, and amazing grace. Have you ever realized what a miracle it is to have a godly intercessor for you when you are at your worst, your most foolish, and your most broken? Ralph Davis tells the story of when he was a young boy, someone had been picking on him. And so being a pastor's son, he says he knew a lot of theological vocabulary, he says, and he abused it all to this boy. And this boy went home and told his parents. When his parents came home, his dad administered the justice on his behind. And his mother came in afterwards, and she got on her knees at his bed and interceded at length and with tears. My son wouldn't become another pastor's son who wanders, but that God would have mercy on my boy. And you could hear the emotion in the voice of this man 50 years later when he remembered the prayers of his mother. An intercessor. Amazing grace. And people of God, you know how God lives among you. It's because of the cross and the intercession of the one who ever lives to make intercession for his people, who looks at his people in all their need and even in their shame at the foot of Mount Sinai and says, and yet they are mine. The Savior who always gets what he asks for when he intercedes for someone. Amazing grace, child of God. This is who's praying for you. This is who's praying for our congregation, the one who always gets what he asks. This is how a holy God can send his glory to be at home with you and you not be consumed and it be safe and hopeful for you to recognize this reality. Why is God still with you after all your sins and unfaithfulness to him? Why is God still gladly with you, knowing all your sins that are still to come? Because he has made it in Christ safe for him to live with you and for him to restore you. But third, God's glory coming home to be among Israel is a big deal because it's deeply experiential. That's the whole point of the tabernacle. And I don't have time to work it out in detail, but the tabernacle is Mount Sinai come down to them to travel with them. Because the same Hebrew words are used of both. God's glory descended and dwelt on Mount Sinai, it says in Exodus 19. And now that same glory descends and dwells in the tabernacle, which is called the tabernacle of the congregation, which means the gathering of God's people, the tent of the meeting of the glory and presence of God. The tent of God's dwelling continues the Mount Sinai experience for them throughout the wilderness. Even the law given on Mount Sinai lives among them in the tabernacle, in the Ark of the Covenant. They didn't just need the law at Mount Sinai, they needed God's dwelling among them. Sinai is not just remembered but relived and recreated and re-enacted and re-experienced. The altar of the burnt offering was lit by the fire of Sinai as well, a lasting testimony to the forgiveness of sin found with the Lord for His people. God now lives with His people and it can be experienced in the tabernacle when they gather for worship. We often think of God as the lawgiver in Mount Sinai or only as the lawgiver, and we missed the point. The lawgiver and the presence and glory of the homemaker are the same God. The tabernacle was every bit as much a gift as the law, and they came together. We should always think of them as inseparable. God's revelation and God's presence, God's holiness and God saying, I've come to put my glory at home among my people. That's what it's about. This is what God delights to do. This is why the church of the Lord exists in the world. This is reason to get up in the morning, and this is a reason to serve the God of glory. Even when the church still has to go through the wilderness before they cross the Jordan into the promised land. And you should notice here an almost urgent hastiness about the Lord coming home with His glorious presence. Because verse 33 tells us, and I read a bit of that, putting all the bits and pieces together of the building, Verse 33, Moses finishes the work and immediately, verse 34, the glory cloud comes rushing down from Mount Sinai and it comes down into the dwelling place of meeting which was set right in the middle of the camp and all the tribes were encamped in a circle around it. Heaven came down and the glory of God filled the camp. It's almost as if God just can't wait to come closer and live with His people. That's why we can sing things like this in the Psalms, still closer to thy side I press for near thee all as well. But God also is the one saying, I come down closer, still closer to you, for there my glory has come home. A match made in heaven, but lived on earth. When I married Lisette a few weeks before the wedding, I created a North American email for her because we were getting on the plane right after our honeymoon. And I created an email with the last name Mordyke. And I sent it to the family saying, this is the new email. And my mother-in-law said to me, hold on, she's not a Mordechai yet. And she said, you just can't wait to get married, can you? An impatient urgency. And this is how the Lord on Mount Sinai comes to dwell among his people. This is how he sees you, believer in Jesus, even when you're at your worst. He is eager for you to experience life with him and for you to know what it is to have him as your God and for you to be one of his people. This is God's desire. And God will not rest until He does everything to pursue you and fulfill that desire. He's not finished yet. He delights to make His glory come to be at home with you and in you. Now that is glorious. But it's also awe-inspiring, and it should be overwhelming in a good way. And to make sure they see this, verse 35 tells us about the overwhelming majesty of the Lord's presence. The cloud of God's glory covers the dwelling place of meeting. Even Moses can't enter it when the glory is lit up and blazing like that. Moses and all Israel are in a healthy way overwhelmed with the majesty of God. Think of it. Moses had seen more come closer to the glory of God than any other man alive in the entire Old Testament. He trembled at the burning bush. He held the staff of God in his hand and announced each of the ten plagues. He saw the glory of God in the Passover. He saw the Red Sea part in front of him. He saw the glory of God descend on Mount Sinai. In fact, Hebrews 12 tells us Moses was terrified. Moses was shaking like a leaf. And Moses got to go higher in Mount Sinai and closest to the glory cloud of God's presence. And even this Moses can't endure the majesty of the glory of God as it fills his dwelling place among his people. And the cloud conceals as much as it reveals. What's the point of all this? I think Calvin says it best when he says, to fill their hearts with awe. If even Moses can't enter the tabernacle when the cloud fills it with glory, how great God must be. Yes, God comes to make His home among His people and to be the home of His people, but He remains God. You don't just treat Him like everybody else. You come closer to Him at His invitation and according to His commands, you must come in worship. that is awe at His glory and submission to His words. He is God. And where God's glory is your focus, your home, and your delight, His holiness will be a disruptive, disturbing, and transforming presence in you. Now, if you don't want this, you don't know God as He is, and you don't know your own place either. Learn then how the glory of God is best received and most at home in your life when you are awed by His incomparable glory and majesty and feel small in His glorious presence, His one-of-a-kind holiness. This requires our awe. And when you're overwhelmed with the awesomeness of God being God, that's when you're most at home with Him. And when you're at home with Him, you will worship Him the most reverently and yet fervently and joyfully and hopefully, because if God is here, it's going to be all right. And where God is central, life must happen. It's crucial that we worship God and think of God this way. Not too long ago, one of my children came home and said, Someone played a worship song from Casting Crowns. What do you think? So I said, well, show me the lyrics. So we looked it up. Apparently this is a very popular song. God is not even mentioned by name once. Every stanza is all about the worshiper. You've been through so much, and now you can decide to turn your life around, and you can leave the shadows behind, and it's time for you to fix yourself. And the chorus kind of vaguely hints at God when it says something like, love and mercy are waiting to embrace you. And the rest is all about the worshiper, and God has been reduced to he who must not be named. a sad commentary on the state of modern Christianity in North America, when we create a new genre and call it worship music, as if the church has never worshipped before, and then consider songs like this worship, when God is He who must not be named. So person-centered, not God-centered. And people sing it and it makes them feel so good about themselves, and they completely miss the point that it's Ichabod, the glory has departed. When it's mostly about the worshipper, the God who is to be worshipped gets forgotten. And you think you can tame God and put him on your leash. God is God. And worship that recognizes God as God requires being absorbed with His glory. Young people, therefore, don't trade in the meat and potatoes of the Psalms for the cotton candy of modernity that can give you a buzz but cannot nourish and sustain you. You need songs like this, Psalm 98. He has brought salvation. He has made it known. And before the nations is His justice shown. Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord. The God of glory thunders and in his temple the only thing people cry out is glory, glory, glory to God. Our worship must radiate the majesty of God and react to the majesty of God. And our experience and our life must adjust to it and become compatible with the glory of God. And it's when you're most God-centered, that you grow spiritually the most and that your obedience flourishes. And that was also missing in this song, not a word about sin, not a word about repentance, and not a word about obedience. It's all about you. There's a second reason why God makes his glory come near in an overwhelming, majestic way in the tabernacle. A God this glorious among his people has to restrain his glory. He has to accommodate his glory to your weakness and creatureliness. Fathers, you know I'm sure that one of the things that little boys need when it's bedtime is to wrestle with dad. Now, when you wrestle with your little boys, you hold back your strength. You don't want to hurt them. You dial back your strength just enough so that they can get the sense that they can compete with you and be near you and enjoy This, God has to dial back his glory so that the priest can enter the tabernacle, so that Moses can enter, that the people can worship. God restrains the fullness of his glory, at least in this tabernacle of dwelling. But the time would come. when the greater than Moses would be sent, who doesn't just stand close to the glory of God. He is the glory of God, John 1, 14. The word became flesh and tabernacled among us, and we beheld his glory. The glory is of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. The angels already chanted it at his birth. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill towards men. What a combination, but that's what happens when God wants his glory to come at home among his people. Glory to God in the highest and therefore on earth peace. Goodwill toward men. Paul could cry to the Corinthians, God has shined in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. No wonder his disciples also fell at his feet in worship and awe. And yet how much of the time on earth his glory was dialed back and dialed down and veiled by his humanity, the lowly Jesus, the servant, the suffering servant, there we see the glory of God. When Jesus puts his hand on someone's shoulder or touches the carrying pallet of a dead boy to give him back to his widowed mother, when he raises the dead and makes the blind to see and finds Zacchaeus in a sycamore tree and comes with his glory and grace to the chief of sinners, That's the glory of God accommodated to and dialed down to us beautifully. But God didn't just leave Jesus lowly and clothed with our weakness. He raised Him from the dead and seated Him in glory on the throne of God where the people of God still fall on their faces before Him and sing of Him, unto Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood. Be glory forever. Now why does all this majesty mediated through Jesus Christ become so important? Because this does two things to you when you get it, when you experience it. It makes you afraid to sin and yet eager to draw near to God and to go to Him first as the one who wants to help you with your sin. It makes you tremble and run. Not away from God, but away from sin and towards Him. This is the fear of the Lord that is the beginning of wisdom and of godly choices in your daily life and of harmony in your life. This is the presence of God that is the secret of real spiritual growth. The glory of God when it is your food and your drink and your delight that does something to you. And yet sometimes in revival times, God turns loose His glory more fully, and His people become unusually filled with God. One pastor was heard to cry out to God in prayer during revival times, Lord, restrain Your hand, Your servant is only clay and cannot contain such glory. People become unable to pray for hours and to stay up all night praising God and hearing His Word and not needing sleep, and fellowshipping and delighting in God. Let us pray then that God would turn loose more of His glory here among us. It can be so. That is the cure to all that can trouble. a heart and a church, that God would turn loose His glory and that everything else would fit into its proper place as a minuscule thing before the God of glory and grace who dwells among His people. To know God more fully, to draw near to Him more closely, to follow Him more, to be more at home with the glory of God. Oh God, turn loose that glory here. And it is as we are a people who are filled with the glory of God that we live like His people all the more. And with such a glorious God living with His people, we see in our last point the complete sufficiency of His presence. Israel's leaving Sinai. The mountain's staying belied because the mountain isn't the promised land. And the law's important, but it doesn't bring you to the promised land. The portable Sinai, the dwelling place of God will go with them. Their whole pilgrimage, their whole camp life is built around the presence of God. They still have to go through the desert. They still have to learn to be holy just as God is holy. They have to face enemies. They have to face disappointments. They have to face temptations. And they will face many an uproar and upheaval in the congregation of the Lord. They must learn to represent God in a sea of paganism and idolatry and immorality. And sometimes they have to learn it the hard way, the long way, and the wrong way, but they can learn it because the God of glory dwells among his people and has sent his glory home to be there. But what keeps them going in their pilgrimage? Verses 36 to 38. Three things. First, God guides them by his providence. Moses didn't send scouts to find the best way to journey. They don't find a camping spot and invite God. He finds it and stops there and settles them. God is the sovereign one. He's not at their beck and call, but they are at His beck and call. They obey Him. They are His people, and He is their God. They are His to command, and they look to Him for guidance. They keep an eye on the cloud of God's glorious presence, and He will bring them into their inheritance that way in His time and way. He is the hope and the security and the confidence of His people. What a relief that is. You don't have to lay awake all night. You don't have to plan and agonize and schedule your life or the well-being of your congregation as if God is not there. We can plan, pray, purpose, dream, hope, but God unfolds the seasons and troubles and sorrows and joys of our lives according to his purposes. You are not in charge of your life. All that has come upon you, and that could come upon you, even when it comes in the midst of sin and brokenness, is God teaching you something. Even when you don't understand and it makes no sense to you, and you never would have chosen it yourself, God is guiding your life. That's His right as God. And His glorious presence makes His guiding hand a relief. And a blessing that you don't have to walk in God's shoes, they're way too big for you, but He's walking in them right next to you. And second, this guidance is expressed by God's law. It's no accident that seven times leading up to our text, we read these words, as the Lord commanded, all the Lord commanded. That's what Moses did. God put His law at the center of life in the Ark of the Covenant called the Ark of His Presence in other places. There are people marked by obedience because the presence of the Lord should lead to obedience. It's always the key to enjoying God's presence. It isn't about you, it's about God. And this isn't legalism, this is New Testament Christianity. Acts 5 verse 32 describes the Holy Spirit like this, given to those who obey God. Jesus said in John 14, if you love me, you will keep my commandments, and in this way, you will remain in the enjoyment of my love, and my Father and I will make our home with you. The fuller your obedience, the fuller your enjoyment of God is God. Sometimes as pastor, people come to you and they say, Pastor, I'm stuck. I'm stuck in my Christian life. The hope and the joy and the pleasure have been sucked right out of it. I'm not growing. I know the Lord is there, but we are not as close as we once were and as we could be. What is wrong? Well, I ask you, are you obeying God? Or are you sloppy and careless about obedience and you think as long as I say, forgive me my sins now and then, no real effort need be put forward into obeying God and growing in obedience? Do you really repent of disobedience? Or do you just wave it away and say, well, nobody's perfect and everybody's doing it? No, to sin is to fall short of the glory of God. When you care about the glory of God, that is always great loss, and the glory can only return in full force and full enjoyment when you recognize God's right to be God and show it by obeying Him. His presence means you can run to Him in repentance, confessing your sin, and the altar that stands at the front of the dwelling place of God shows His atonement has been made and can be applied to you. You want to grow. Work on your obedience in the presence of the Lord. Now, that might not sound as exciting as being pumped up and wound up by something or someone else, but it is actually exciting. Because the glory of God is revealed in your daily life when you obey Him and are thankful, and that makes the glory of God a pleasure to be around, rather than a disturber of your peace. But thank God for the disturbance of your peace, because that's proof not that God has left you, but that God is with you. Because when you're upset with someone and you're living under the same roof, it's hard to live under the same roof, and that's proof that you're both there. The disturbance of your peace that comes at your sin and disobedience is there as proof that God is there, not that He's absent, and that He desires your restoration when you would recognize and honor the glory of His redemption and of His holiness and run back to God in repentance and in diligence and in love. Because law really is just God telling you practically what love looks like. And third, God will be their provider. His glory cloud, His dwelling place will be with them as He provides for them. They'll have ups and downs, they'll have days and nights, and God's glory will be uniquely reflected in both. During the day it shades them from the scorching heat of what Moses called that great and terrible wilderness, and during the night it lights up the darkness when all other lights go out. God's glory is their nightlight that shines and that reminds them in the darkness, God is still with me and he gives me his presence as his light. Now, what a blessing to have such a God as the homemaker in your life. Where God's people go, there you find God going. His redemptive presence, His glory come home in the cloud is mobile. It goes where you go, child of God. No distance is too far, no darkness is too intense, no heat of trial too overwhelming for God. It accompanies you in the classroom. It goes before you on the job site and in the office. It sits at your kitchen table. It's with you in the operating room in the hospital. It's with you at the funeral home and at the graveside. It's at the empty kitchen table. It is there amid all the troubles and turmoils. All that can happen in the wilderness is the congregation of the Lord travels towards the promised land. It is right there. What a cloud to live your life under. You could say Exodus opened with a different cloud. They were living in darkness and in the shadows of enslavement, of grief, as their babies were taken in genocide, of the whips of the taskmasters and of a hopeless future. They were under a cloud, even if the word wasn't used there, but now they're under a different cloud. This time, the cloud of God's glory, the signal of His presence, His redemption, His holiness, and His grace. He has destroyed their enemies. He has delivered His people by the blood of the Lamb and by His power. He's given them His law, and He's come in the fullness of His glory to make His home among them as the indwelling God. And he still does these things in the congregation of the Lord and in the hearts and homes and lives of his people. Do you see what you're missing? If you don't seek or enjoy God like this, if you've never learned to see God as your home, do you see you're missing everything? fall on your knees and cry out, oh God invade my life with this glory to send that glory to be at home in me through the grace of Jesus Christ to disturb and evict all the sins that don't belong there and to produce in me the holiness that the presence of the Lord both requires and provides. But for all his believing people, God says, my glory is with you to stay. It's come to make its home with you in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. Why? Then, let every day be cloudy like this. Amen.