“Don’t wanna go!” You hear that from kids. If they don’t want to go somewhere, they can make that abundantly clear. Adults often share that feeling but they might couch their reluctance in a more diplomatic term such as: “I would prefer not to”. Sometimes they even choose to hide how they really feel by using phrases like: “I’m too busy” or “I already have a commitment”. Moses was not a kid but an adult. He didn’t wanna go and he didn’t even try to hide his reluctance! In fact, he clearly expressed it in very direct terms: Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here . (Ex 33:15) Ok, to be fair, it wasn’t an issue of Moses not wanting to go; he just didn’t want to go if God’s presence wasn’t going with him. Moses was astute enough to know that if the Lord’s presence was not with him (and with the people of Israel ), things could go sideways very quickly. One c...