Deuteronomy 10:1

Deuteronomy 10:1 says, At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.  Moses said that God then directed him to hew out two tablets of stone like the first two that he broke, and to come back up the mountain and make an ark out of wood. The first tablets may have been broken, but God's law was still intact, and when He had Moses bring the tablets to be rewritten, God was showing His willingness to forgive the people of Israel.  When we break God's law, it is still intact, and we must return to Him in repentance, and He awaits ready to forgive us if we have put our faith in Jesus Christ. Verse two adds, And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.  God said that He would write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, and then Moses was to put them in tha ark.  God's law will never change no matter how many times we may break it, but we must be ready to receive it if it is to do us any good.  Verse three continues, And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.  Moses said he made the ark and hewed the two tablets and went up the mountain.  Matthew Henry says that since the Bible says that in Exodus that Bezaleel was said to have made the ark, that either Moses made the ark of wood and Bezaleel later overlaid it with gold, or that Moses had him make it at this time while he was up on the mountain.  Verse four states, And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me.  Moses said God rewrote the ten commandments on the tablets as He had before and gave them to him once again.  Our breaking God's commandments will never change them, and if we are guilty of sin and repent, God will once again write them in our heart.  Verse five adds, And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.  Moses said he came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark as God had commanded him to do.  God is ready to write his law in our hearts as soon as we are ready to receive it.  He does not force us to accept it.  Verse six says, And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead.  Moses said that as the people journeyed in the wilderness, that Aaron died and was buried, and that his son Eleazar took his place at God's direction.  God will always have people ready to take the place of those who are doing His work today, but it will be at His direction and not by any earthly status.  Verse seven adds, From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.  After Aaron was buried, the continual on their journey toward the Promised Land.  We can never allow the death of anyone to keep us from continuing on our journey of following Jesus to heaven, our Promised Land.  Verse eight states, At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.  Moses said that the tribe of Levi was separated at that time to bear the ark of the covenant.  As Christians, we are separated from the world today to carry God's truth into the world.  Verse nine adds, Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.  The tribe of Levi had no earthly inheritance, but their inheritance was in the LORD according to what God had promised.  Out inheritance as followers of Christ will never be in the things of this world, but will always be in our heavenly home according to God's word.  Until then, we are simply called to serve and obey Him.