Exodus 33

Exodus 33 starts with, "The Lord said to Moses, “Get going, you and the people you brought up from the land of Egypt. Go up to the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I told them, ‘I will give this land to your descendants.’ 2 And I will send an angel before you to drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 3 Go up to this land that flows with milk and honey."

God says, "get going," it is just so to the point and direct. There is the land flowing with milk and honey and it is just waiting for you so you better get a move on. It makes me wonder why there were not itching to get there as soon as they could. They had become content with that they had and where they were, but God's ultimate destination was still the end result.
This passage makes me think of heaven. Jesus tells us that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. What I believe the Kingdom of Heaven to be is Gods work on this earth that is going on right now, all around out. And sometimes we choose to participate and sometimes we choose to ignore it. Dallas Willard says that you can have as much Heaven now as you can handle. But so often we just get content with what he have right in front of us. The Kingdom of Heaven is available, it is right in front of us, and depending on how much of it you would grab on to is how much you can have not. So "get going!" let's go the land of milk and honey now and not wait anymore.

Exodus 22-24

In Exodus 22 God gives the laws of property and social responsibility. As I read this passage it is quite different to hear everything in terms of oxen and field, but I feel like I can really see God's intention in this. God is our father, every person on this planet is his child and like any good father he wants them to be treated fairly. If Johnny on the playground stole your sons lunch it would seem appropriate for him to pay him back for what he stole. God is a loving God but he is also a just God. He has set forth what is right and what is wrong in the world, and what is wrong our father wants to see right. When I read exodus 22 I do not hear a dictator laying down the law that we are to follow or else, but I hear the father who wants to see his children treated fairly.

Ex. 22:29 “You must not hold anything back when you give me offerings from your crops and your wine. “You must give me your firstborn sons."
My boss has a son, and one day he told his son that he needed to give away some of his toys to some kids who needed them more. His son agreed, but then started to pull out all the toys that he didn't play with anymore saying, "they can have these, I don't like them anymore." We often give to God the same way, not wanted to give where we will feel it, but wanted to give the left overs and the forgotten about. God however is not some egomaniac. He is a father teaching his kids how to give. That a real giving heart will give their first, will give there best.