Today's Passage: Exodus 19-20
I don't often find myself thinking or saying this, but in some ways, I'm jealous of the Israelites wandering in the desert. While their life was very difficult (and after seeing the wilderness with my own eyes last week, I can tell you it was way more difficult than I had imagined before), their relationship with God was so personal and intimate. Can you imagine what it would be like to follow God in a cloud of smoke or pillar of fire? Can you imagine feeding on manna and quail provided by the Lord? Or can you imagine, as our passage talks about today, seeing the glory of the Lord covering an entire mountain?
These two chapters remind me of the awesome nature of God's holiness. He is so holy that the people coulnd't set foot on the mountain...they could see God's holiness, but they couldn't be a part of it. Moses receives the Ten Commandments as God's way of bringing holiness to the people...or at least, moving them toward holiness.
Thanks be to God, that through the death of His Son, Jesus Christ, holiness has come to man! I may not live in holiness all the time, but holiness now lives in me. I want to strive, as Peter says in I Peter 1, to "be holy because I (God) am holy." I want to honor the same Spirit that once engulfed a mountain that now is inside of me.
When is the last time you were amazed by God's holiness? Are you treating His Word with the same reverence the Israelites were commanded to treat this mountain? What about the Sabbath day...are you keeping it holy by giving it reverence and importance? God is truly awesome, and when we forget how awesome He is, we're heading down the same road the Israelites are about to take in a few chapters with the golden calf.
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