Glow Show

Read Exodus 34:33-35.

Got a veil handy? Unless we learn to protect our anointing, then we had better keep a veil within reach! Moses wore a veil so that the people of Israel would not realize the glow of God’s anointing was diminishing. News flash! People can tell when you are losing the glow. Moses found out that the people were less likely to listen and obey when he didn’t have the glow. The same is true today. People are less likely to listen if you don’t have the “mark” of anointing on you. Without that anointing we are helpless and ineffective.

We must learn to protect the anointing of God on our life. It is our glow that sets us apart, gives us power, and authority. It is that anointing we must learn to guard and keep.

So how do we keep the glow? To answer this you must find out what caused Moses to lose the glow. The longer Moses stayed away from the presence of God, the more the glow would dissipate and diminish. When we have long periods of time in which we are separated from intimate relationship and communion with God, the noticeable mark of God’s anointing seems to fade. Moses learned that he had to get back into the presence of God and to communicate with Him in order to maintain that special mark of intimacy. It is in the pulling away from the crowd, spotlight, and applause. It is in the climbing of the mountain into His consuming presence that we find our “anointing”. We must be careful to go into the quiet place often. The problem is that many of us wait so long to go that our glow is completely gone. The people we are trying to reach realize it before we do. Like Samson, we try to shake ourselves and think we still have the glow only to find that it is gone. Look in the mirror; do you see the glow? Is it time to pull away and replenish? Or is it time to wear the veil? I encourage you not to settle for a cover up. Get into God’s presence and let the glow show!