Saturday, September 3, 2016

Exodus 34

So he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.  Now it was so, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talked with Him...And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. vv.28-29, 33

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A person could survive without food for weeks, but no one can go without water for more than 3 or 4 days, yet MOess went 40 days!  This only is because God sustained him.  The verse that "man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes form the mouth of God," (Matt. 4:4) truly happened by Moses living being fed by God's words.  The only food you should binge on or gorge on is the Bread of Life- Jesus.  Are you "eating" to your hearts content?  Are you "starving" yourself?
Moses was changed not just emotionally but physically too by spending initiate time with God, his face shown- was glowing.  Yet because of the hard hearts of the Israelites they could not look on Moses, so he put a veil over his face.  Yet we learn from 2 Cor. 3 that when one turns to the Lord the veil is lifted.  Do you shine that you've been with the Lord?  How has being with the Lord changed/transformed you?

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