1st.: Face to Face with God
Moses had a very strong rapport with God.
We see this when the Bible tells us:
“And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaks unto his friend.” (Exo. 33:11).
How many people can say that?
A few verses later God said, ‘You cannot see my face.’” (Exo. 33:20).
This does not negate the friendship comment about Moses.
When speaking with Moses at the tabernacle, God took the form of a cloudy pillar (see Exo. 33:9-10).
The body language of Moses, and the ‘body language’ of the cloudy pillar, was that of two friends speaking ‘face-to-face’.
Centuries later, Jesus made the following comments to his disciples,
“You are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you.
Henceforth, I call you not servants; for the servant knows not what his lord does.
But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my Father,
I have made known unto you.” (John 15:14-16).
As Moses had a friendship with God, so Jesus offers friendship to us.
Since Jesus is Immanuel, or God in the flesh,
He therefore, offers us a friendship with the Creator God of heaven and earth.
Friends converse with each other - which is what prayer is all about.
“Because he has inclined his ear to me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. (Psalm 116:2)