Today’s Chapters: Exodus 31-35
Pete’s Thoughts:
Exodus 31
I always find it so amazing that God specifically choose the men he wanted to design the works for the Tabernacle. I know that God knows everyone intimately but sometimes it needs to sink in again. God had gifted these men with specific skills and wanted them to use their skills to glorify Him. What has God blessed you with that you need to be using for Him?
Exodus 32
This section is shocking as to how fast the Israelites forget and turn away from the Lord. Right before Moses went up onto the mountain, God tried to talk to the people as a whole but the could to stand it. They wanted Moses to intercede for them. But when he was taking too long, they decided to provide their own god to worship. How easily they forgot the God who brought them out of Egypt with so many wonders. How often we are like the Israelites – we see God’s majesty displayed and the next moment we turn our back on Him and do our own thing.
Exodus 33
Imagine what it was like for Moses to talk to God, face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. That was an intimate relationship. What is hindering us from having that kind of relationship with God, today?
Exodus 34
When Moses came back down from the mountain, after God wrote on the second set of stone tablets, his face shone with the reflected glory of God. Moses had been in the very presence of God and there was a distinct change that occurred. Do we show that kind of change on our face and in our lives?
Exodus 35
Through out the law, we read a fair amount about the Sabbath. Work was to be done for six days and then the seventh was to be spent resting. People who do not believe in six literal days of creation cannot believe in the Sabbath, for when the Sabbath is first introduced in Exodus 20:11, we are told where the pattern for six days of work and one day of rest comes from – God creating universe. The only way for this to work is for God to have created everything in six 24-hour days, like Genesis tells us. The greatest commentary on the Bible is the Bible, itself.
