God's Will and God's Glory

"When the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward." - Exodus 40:36

Just as all God's speaking to His people in those far-off days was from between the cherubim of glory, so all His leading of them onward was by means of that same glory. In the cloud by day and the fire by night the glory of God appeared, and by it they moved. For us, too, all revelation of God's will issues from His glory. See the glory of God in relation to any matter and we have discovered God's leading in regard to it. You ask me 'Is this His will?' I reply by asking in turn, 'Is God's glory resting there?' Discern that, and you need wait for nothing further. For the divine glory itself expresses the divine will. Guidance is thus simply a matter of correspondence to that. Where God's glory rests we need not ask the way.

The Joyful Heart (Watchman Nee 主僕倪柝聲弟兄)

Read the Scriptures: Exodus 40