Week 59, Day : The Tablets Remade
Today’s Reading: Deut 10:1-22
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
God commands Moses to remake the two stone tablets. He brought these back up on the mountain and God wrote on them like the former tablets. Moses is told to put these into the ark of the covenant. This remaking of the tablets indicates God’s forgiveness of Israel for making the calf and thus a renewal of the covenant just made.
Moses asks them now, what does the Lord require from them(vs 12)? How would you answer such a question today? You can examine Moses’ answer to that question in verses 12-13 but I think that it is a good exercise for us to answer that question to ourselves. He also tells them to circumcise their heart and do not stiffen their necks any longer (16). Circumcision was a very important process for the Israelite to keep. But what do you think it means for someone to circumcise their heart?
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Week 58, Day 5: 40 days and nights
Today’s Reading: Deut 9:1-29
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
Although God had delivered Israel from Egypt with a strong hand from the slavery of Egypt, Israel quickly provoked God’s wrath by making their golden calf. When Moses saw what they had done in making the altar, he threw the two stone tablets and smashed them before Israel. Moses then displayed his sincere dedication to God by falling down before God and neither eating or drinking because of the sin of Israel (vs. 18). For forty days and nights Moses pleaded for Israel to be spared (vs. 25). Moses did not have to intercede for them. He was not required to petition that they be spared and he displayed great diligence to persist for 40 days and nights. These kind of accounts should help us understand what a good, godly leader is like. Moses was a very unique man. His dedication to God helped deliver Israel from destruction.
Question: When you think of Moses, what quality stands out the most to you?
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Week 58, Day 4: Testing You
Today’s Reading: Deut 8:1-20
Some thoughts from today’s reading…
I missed posting the post for last Thursday and Friday, my appologies. I will go ahead and post today for the readings from those days. Chapter 8 contains one of my favorite passages to consider. Verses 2-6, detail for us what God was doing for and to Israel while they were in the wilderness. God was humbling them through the wilderness wanderings. He tested them to see what was in their hearts, whether they would keep His commands. He let them be hungry, feeding them with manna which they had not known of before to teach them that man does not live by bread alone. Man lives by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. The Lord during these wanderings was disciplining them. Thus they are to keep His commands, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.
I have thought about this passage a lot in regard to what we may being taught in our lives. Do you have hardships? Are there times where you are “wandering” about in life? Do you wonder where your next meal is going to come from or how you will pay the bills? What lessons do we learn during such times? What lessons ought we to keep from such times?
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