8/11/2008 9:59 AM
My Worship Time Focus: God’s forgiveness granted
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Exodus 34:1-28
Message of the verses: I will not put all of these verses into this
SD as there are too many verses, so I just read them and will bring my comments
on these verses here.
These
verses are about God’s forgiveness and God renewing the covenant with Israel Israel to go into captivity in Babylon
God
instructed Moses to make two more tablets that He would again write the Ten
Commandments on and Moses obeyed God and again went up on the mountain for
forty days and nights without eating or drinking. People can live for forty days without
eating, but they cannot live for forty days without drinking so God was the One
who sustained Moses and kept him alive those forty days. I believe that because Moses was in the
presence of God that is what sustained him for that long of a time without
water. This could be a picture of heaven
because Moses was in the presence of God and he did not require food or drink
which is what will happen to believers in heaven.
Moses fell
at the feet of God and worshiped Him and He saw the glory of God in a limited
faction while up on the mountain for he would come down with a glowing face because
of being in the presence of God.
God would
promise Moses that He would lead the people into the Promised Land which is
something that He told Moses He would not do because of their sin. God also goes over the Laws again with Moses
in this section. What else was said for
those forty days is not recorded in the Scriptures and it would have been nice
to have all of what happened on video tape in order to see it today, but that
is where faith comes in.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: There was a message that God gave to me a lot
of years ago that has a little bit to do with this section of Scripture,
actually it has been added to somewhat after reading this section of
Scripture. Idol worship is like cancer
in the body and it has to be dealt with in a very serious manner by cutting it
out of the body. When God led the
children of Israel Israel
to destroy all of the nations when they first went in because of wild animals
which would come in because of the vacant land, but instructed the children of Israel Israel
God took
away swearing from me when I first became a believer but there are other
problems that I still have to deal with and I have to deal with them by faith,
and it is hard for me to do this and if I try and do it on my own then it is
impossible for me to do it. Just as God
instructed Moses to get rid of all of the idols in the Promised Land I am to
deal in the same way with those sinful habits that God did not take away from
me when I first believed in Him. Jesus
spoke of spiritually cutting them off and that is what I need to do with those
“idols” in my life.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Put on my spiritual armor so I can stand today.
- Seek the Holy Spirit to do some spiritual operations in my life to rid me of those sinful habits that I have.
- Trust the Lord to work in the life of Andrew Lech to do a miracle so he will return the money he owes us and others.
Memory verses for the week: Exodus
20:1-6
1.
Then God spoke all these words, saying,
2.
I am the Lord your God who brought you out of
the land of Egypt
3.
You shall have no other gods before Me.
4.
You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any
likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water
under the earth.
5.
You shall not worship them or serve them; for I,
the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on
the children, of the third and forth generation of those who hate me,
6.
but show loving kindness to thousands, to those
who love me and keep my commandments.
8/11/2008 11:35 AM
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