notice, but God knows all of our outworking, all that frustrates us, all that worries us, all that makes us squirm in the pew, is His glory because it is His story, His plan, His character working out the very details of our lives where nothing is random in the universe. If it had not been for hand- hid glory, Moses would have disintegrated in a consuming laser burn of God's gaze. His glory hotter, stronger, a thousand times more brilliant that the brightest day. God put his veil between his glory not to keep Moses from His presence which He promised earlier in the chapter, but to protect Moses from being consumed by His brilliance. That is why He said you will see my back, my shining. God knew Moses needed progressive revelation. Would we adore Him, praise Him, if we lived by explanation instead of by His promises? The more Moses would have seen, the less He would have lived by faith. When we want to see, when we want to know, when we are ungrateful for what we do not have, when we feel we deserve better, when we feel we should have more, what are we called to do? We are called to wait, worship, and glorify. We are to wait on God. We are to worship God. We are to glorify God. Waiting is not passive. Waiting is exhaustive. Waiting is strenuous. Waiting in prayer for God's answer is hard. Robert E. Lee walked the upstairs hallway of his Arlington home, walked in prayer. Should he take command of the union army as offered or should he stand with his Virginia ancestors whose legislative body was voting to leave the succeed? He spent all night walking.The only man in the history of the world who has been offered the command of opposing armies. Maine Colonel Joshua Chamberlain waited all right in prayer trying to receive the surrendering Southern troops slowly making their way up the Appomattox road that morning to lay down their arms? Joshua chamberlain did something very politically incorrect. When they approached Appomattox Courthouse, he called the Union soldiers to right arm out of respect and they stood at attention to honor the defeated Southern soldiers. When General Borden of the Southern Army saw the salute, he touched the tip of his saber to the heel of his boot and called his soldiers to salute in return. They walked through in pride. That one act brought greater reconciliation than any other act in southern history. It later cost Chamberlain his chance at running for president, after serving for three terms as Governor of Maine. Constituents said that he should not have done that to the southern soldiers. We wait and hold on to the promises of the Bible. Martin Luther said, 'The Bible is alive. It speaks to me. It has feet; it runs after me. It has hands; it lays hold of me.' The Gideons say of the Bible, 'The Bible contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners, and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe, and practice it to be holy. It contains light to direct you, food to support you,and comfort to cheer you. It is the traveler's map, the pilgrim's staff, the pilot's compass, the soldier's sword, and the Christian's charter. Here Paradise is restored, Heaven opened, and the gates of hell disclosed. Christ is its grand subject, our good the design and the glory of God its end.' If you are not holding onto the Bible, you are holding onto the world. If you hold onto the world, you will worry. If you hold onto the word, you will worship. On a commuter flight from Portland, Maine to Boston, the pilot Henry Dempsey heard an unusually loud noise at the back of the plane. He turned the controls over to his co-pilot and went back to check on the back door. As he approached the tail of the plane, the plane hit an air pocket, hurling Henry against the back door which opened, sucking him out of the plane. The co- pilot radioed for an emergency landing and emergency response. After the plane landed, they found Henry Dempsey holding onto the door of the plane. Somehow, he held onto the outside ladder as the plane flew at 200 miles per hour for over 10 minutes until the plane descended from