The Cloud on the Tabernacle

I wrote about the context for this manna here, but I want to include the full text of these verses since they have been a blessing to me.

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out--until the day it lifted. So the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel during all their travels.

~ Exodus 40:34-38

I long for the day when the presence of the Lord is such a visible manifestation in my eyes!

But Joshua...

One of my favorite verses, not only because of the inspiration I get from the intimate connection between God and Moses, but also because of the tremendous example Joshua sets through his devotion to being in the presence of the Lord...

The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.

~ Exodus 33:11