Exodus 34:9b "Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, (Moses knew and acknowledged both the people's and his own resistance to the ways of God and to His purposes. As he acknowledges his own sin, he pleads for mercy and forgiveness in the same breath that he asks the Lord to be with him. Like Moses, we need to be quick to confess to the Lord our acts of willfulness and disobedience and to ask for and receive His endless mercy and forgiveness.) and take us as Your inheritance." (Moses repeats back to the Lord God's very Own promise,
that He would look on us as His very Own inheritance. Out of all His wonders and His creation, though He is complete in Himself and "needs" nothing, though He could have chosen any of the magnificent elements of His grand and glorious handiwork, God Himself, instead, chooses us as His legacy, His gift, His heritage. Standing on and praying back to the Lord His Own words and promises ensures that God will answer our prayer because He's already pledged these promises and Himself to us through the love letter He's given us in Scripture. As God's Own special inheritance, we stand on the promises of love that He extends to us today in His Word.)
