DAY 70 Read Deuteronomy 8 through 10.
Today's reading: Moses recalls the worship of the golden calf and the breaking of the stone tablets at Sinai almost forty years earlier.
Memory gem: "The Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward" (Deuteronomy 10:17).
Thought for today:
After the people had gone through their purification, and the sacrifices had been offered in their behalf for the sin of worshipping the golden calf, what did the Lord tell Moses to do? He instructed Moses to make two new tables of stone. God had made the first tables, but Moses made the second tables.
Moses cut out of stone two tables, just like the first, and took them up to God on the mountain. There God wrote on them the words that were on the first tables.
Friend, did you ever stop to think what Moses had to do? He had to hew out two tables like the first. Suppose you had been in Moses' place, with broken and crushed pieces of stone lying at your feet, and God should say: "Now, you must cut out two tables of stone just like the first." What would you have to do first of all? You would have to get down on your knees and pick up those pieces, wouldn't you? You would have to pick up all the pieces and put them together in order to get the proper and exact dimensions--the length, width, thickness, and shape. Oh, I imagine Moses spent a good deal of time down here on his knees, bending over, poking around, picking up those broken pieces, and fitting them together. It was a big task. It was a humble work, humiliating work, back-breaking work; it was knee work. But he finally got the pieces together and the measurements taken. Then he had to find some stone, like the stone of the first tables, and go to work with a chisel and hammer and cut it out from the ledge. smooth it off, and prepare it. I often think what a job that was, carrying these heavy tables of stone to the top of Mount Sinai. It wasn't a notebook job; it was a great burden to be carried up that mountain. And there in the cloud and fire and glory, God wrote the words again.
Today's reading: Moses recalls the worship of the golden calf and the breaking of the stone tablets at Sinai almost forty years earlier.
Memory gem: "The Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward" (Deuteronomy 10:17).
Thought for today:
After the people had gone through their purification, and the sacrifices had been offered in their behalf for the sin of worshipping the golden calf, what did the Lord tell Moses to do? He instructed Moses to make two new tables of stone. God had made the first tables, but Moses made the second tables.
Moses cut out of stone two tables, just like the first, and took them up to God on the mountain. There God wrote on them the words that were on the first tables.
Friend, did you ever stop to think what Moses had to do? He had to hew out two tables like the first. Suppose you had been in Moses' place, with broken and crushed pieces of stone lying at your feet, and God should say: "Now, you must cut out two tables of stone just like the first." What would you have to do first of all? You would have to get down on your knees and pick up those pieces, wouldn't you? You would have to pick up all the pieces and put them together in order to get the proper and exact dimensions--the length, width, thickness, and shape. Oh, I imagine Moses spent a good deal of time down here on his knees, bending over, poking around, picking up those broken pieces, and fitting them together. It was a big task. It was a humble work, humiliating work, back-breaking work; it was knee work. But he finally got the pieces together and the measurements taken. Then he had to find some stone, like the stone of the first tables, and go to work with a chisel and hammer and cut it out from the ledge. smooth it off, and prepare it. I often think what a job that was, carrying these heavy tables of stone to the top of Mount Sinai. It wasn't a notebook job; it was a great burden to be carried up that mountain. And there in the cloud and fire and glory, God wrote the words again.
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