January 1, 2022 Exodus 34:14 For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. When we think of jealousy, it tends to be in a negative way; typically, jealousy is something that betrays human frailty and often leads to destructive behavior. It was jealousy that prompted Cain to lure his brother into a field […]
DECEMBER 31, 2021 Exodus 34:11-12 Behold, I am driving out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. […]
DECEMBER 30, 2021 Exodus 34:10 And He said: “Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord. For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.” In […]
DECEMBER 29, 2021 Exodus 34:8-9 So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped. Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.” I have long […]
DECEMBER 28, 2021 Exodus 34:6-7 And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” As […]
DECEMBER 27, 2021 Exodus 34:6-7 And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.” Think […]
DECEMBER 25, 2021 Exodus 34:1 And the Lord said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. Let us consider the fact that the original tablets of stone — those that were broken — were cut from a mountain without hands. That […]
DECEMBER 24, 2021 Exodus 34:1 And the Lord said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke. Because the original stones were broken by Moses, he was instructed to hew the second pair of tablets from stone himself. It is these tablets […]
DECEMBER 23, 2021 Exodus 33:21-23 And the Lord said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away My hand, […]
DECEMBER 22, 2021 Exodus 33:21-23 And the Lord said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take away My hand, […]
DECEMBER 19, 2021 Exodus 33:13 Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people. Imagine being told that you are going to lead millions of people through a desert […]
DECEMBER 21, 2021 Exodus 33:20 But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” As we discussed yesterday, no human has been permitted to see the face of God for to do so would mean death. If we can comprehend and embrace the fact that flesh cannot “glory in […]