Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Exodus 34:1 says, And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.  God told Moses to make two new tablets like the ones that he had broken, and then God would write the words that He had written on them again.  Moses did not write the law of God either time, but God did.  Today, if we have broken the law of God, we cannot rewrite it.  We can only come back to God as ask Him to forgive us and then to rewrite His word in our heart.  Verse two states, And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.  God gave Moses time to get ready, then he was to come up the mountain to God.  Whether we are a follower of Christ or not, God is going to call us to Him and give us time to get ready to do what He is calling us to do.  Verse three adds, And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.  Like Moses, when we come to God for salvation and to seek his will for our life, we come alone.  No one else can accept salvation for us, nor can we accept salvation for others.  Verse four says, And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.  Moses hewed the two tablets of stone, then he rose up early in the morning and went up the mountain as God had instructed him to do.  When God instructs us to do something, after we prepare ourselves according to His guidance, we should not delay in doing what He has called us to do.  Like Moses, we need to begin as soon as God allows us to.  Verse five states, And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.  Moses went up the mountain, but he did not reach God.  God still had to come down to Moses.  We cannot reach God by our own abilities, but must wait for God to come to us.  Even after we accept Christ as Savior and Lord, and are indwelled by the Holy Spirit, God is not ours to command.  We must still wait on God to reveal His will to us.  The Holy Spirit is not with us to do whatever we desire of Him, but is with us to reveal God's will to us and to empower us to accomplish His will.  Verse six declares And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,  Then verse seven adds, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.  God passed before Moses, and made it clear exactly who He was.  God was not bragging about Who He was, He was just making sure that Moses understood Who He was.  When God comes to us today, He will make sure that we know exactly Who He is, not to brag on Himself, but to help us understand exactly Who He is.  We cannot accept the salvation of Christ if we do not know Who God is.  Verse eight says, And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.  Moses quickly bowed his head and worshipped God.  When we come into God's presence, we should always come humbly and with an attitude of worship.  We too often act as though the only time that we need ot worship God is when we gather together in His name, but we are to worship God whenever we are in His presence.  I believe that since we as Christians have the Holy Spirit with us always, this means that we should always be in an attitude of worship to God.  Verse nine declares, And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.  Moses still prayed for the people of Israel.  He acknowledged that they were a stiff necked people who often rebelled against God.  Moses could pray for them, but he could not gain salvation for them.  We today can intercede for others, but we cannot claim salvation for them.

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