Exodus 34: 21 says, Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.  Once again, God told Moses that the seventh day, the Sabbath, was a day of rest.  This was true no matter what was going on in life.  Even though we celebrate the Lord's day, this is still true.  Verse twenty-two,  And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.   God then began to tell Moses the other special days the people were to celebrate, all to show their honor to God.  Verse twenty-three adds, Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.  God said there were to be three times a year when the people appeared before him.  As followers of Christ, we are continually in God's presence, but we still have those special days that we dedicate to Him, but we need to make sure that He is always the focus of those days.  Christmas is one of those days, but the world has tried to turn it into something else.  Verse twenty-four proclaims, For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.  God said that He would not only protect the people when they appeared before Him, but that He would enlarge their borders.  God may not enlarge our borders in this world, but if we are faithful to Him, one day we will have all of heaven as our home.  Verse twenty-five says, Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.  God reminded Moses about the law of the Passover.  Verse twenty-six states, The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.  Then, God reminds Moses of the law for the first fruits.  Again, God determined the way these days were to be observed, just as He should determine the way that we observe the days set aside for Him today.  Verse twenty-seven declares, And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.  God told Moses to write these words down because they were a part of God's covenant with the people of Israel.  We still read these words today, and they are still God's words.  We have a new covenant through Christ, but we still need to learn from God's written word.  Verse twenty-eight declares, And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.  Moses was with God for forty days and nights, and he did not eat or drink during this time.  Moses spent the time writing the words of the covenant on the tablets, as well as the Ten Commandments.  The first time God had inscribed the words, but this time Moses was required to do it.  It may be that when we do not obey God that we have to spend time redoing what He has already done for us.  Of course, this will never apply to salvation, which we can never accomplish on our own.  Verse twenty-nine says,:And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.  When Moses came down off the mountain, his face glowed, but he did not realize this.  We cannot spend time with God, especially intense personal time, without being changed.  Our face may not glow, but our spirit should.  Verse thirty states, And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.  Aaron and the people of Israel were afraid to come near Moses when they saw him.  The first time Moses came down the mountain, they were dancing and worshipping the idol that they had made, but this time their focus was on Moses.  If we are to worship God today, our focus must be on Him.  Moses was not God, but he was the one who represented God to the people.  Verse thirty-one declares, And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.  Moses called them, and Aaron and the rulers of the congregation came and talked with him.  We need to listen to and talk with those who are sharing God's word today, and we need to share God's good news with those that we encounter in life.   Verse thirty-two says, And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.  Next, the rest of the people of Israel came near, and Moses shared with them the commandments of God.  Verse thirty-three states, And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.  Moses covered his face while he was speaking to them.  Moses was not to be the focus, but God's commandments were.  We today when we serve and worship God must keep the focus on Him.  Verse thirty-four adds, But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.   When Moses went to speak to God, he uncovered his face.  When we speak to God today, we should not attempt to hide anything from him.  Moses did not have to worry about outshining God and neither do we.  Verse thirty-five declares, And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.  Moses still covered his face when he was speaking to the people if Israel.  It would be nice if people could see the truth of our relationship with God reflected in our faces, but we must rely on our actions doing so.