Exodus 33:13b "Remember that this nation is Your people." (As part of his intercessory prayer for God's sinful people, Moses reminds the Lord that the people belong to Him, not to Moses, and that they are the very people He has brought to Himself. Moses is very mindful that the Lord's relationship to the Israelites is primary. Even when they have rejected truth and embraced sin and folly, they still are a chosen people of the Lord. Here Moses states that the Lord's divine Sovereignty over them far outweighs any position he has as their human leader. We learn from Moses' prayer that he not only reminds the Lord of His past promises, but he also intercedes for the people about whom he also cares. It is a prayer from which we can learn today, that we can be honest before the Lord in our requests, that we can trust the past promises of His Word, that we belong to the Lord Who has declared us His people, and that we can intercede for others because the Lord cares about us and them.)
