Category: Devotionals

ommissioning Oholiab and Bezalel to commence the construction task. We see God’s anointing and their commissioning for their role, and the generous freewill giving of the Israelites towards the extension of God’s salvation plan. This points us to the relationship we have with God in Christ, who empowers us with gifts by the Holy Spirit…

In Exodus 35, the narrative shifts from Moses receiving instructions from God on how to live in a way that pleases God (especially after the disastrous Golden Calf incident), to constructing God’s dwelling place with his people – the tabernacle. In our passage, we see that this task was one that all of Israel played…

Moses’ shining face reflected God’s glory to all of God’s People. But his glory caused fear for Israel when they gazed on Moses’ face. Thankfully, now that Christ has come we are able to look with unveiled face at God’s glory, and like Moses, reflect God’s glory to the world.

After seeing God’s glory, Moses was able to renew the covenant relationship with God. In this second chance, God makes quite clear yet again the standard he requires. They are clearly told not to worship idols, and instead to structure their lives around the worship of God; including both in feasts and the Sabbath.

In the first nine verses of chapter 34, Moses encounters God’s glory in a way he never had before. We see the preparations for the encounter, read of the encounter itself, and Moses’ reaction. While we can only understand it second-hand, the encounter with God and his attributes is one we all experience every day…

God’s declaration that he would not go to the Promised Land with his people, because their sinful nature might result in their destruction, led to repentance from Israel. But this had not yet led to a restoration of God’s presence with them. Were they still really God’s people? So Moses entered the Tent of Meeting…

The Golden Calf incident resulted in a confrontation between God and the people over their grievous sin. It resulted in consequences for Israel. In this passage, we see it also resulted in God’s displeasure with Israel, as he commanded them to leave Sinai without his presence with them. Yet despite this, we see that God…

put sin to death, and acknowledge that sin has consequences. Thankfully, God has placed the worst of those consequences on Christ, not on us.

o far in Exodus 32 we have seen the Israelites create and worship and idol, and Moses intercede on their behalf before God up on Mount Sinai. In verses 15 to 24, Moses descends the mountain to confront Israel, and specifically Aaron, on their sinful idolatry. In this passage, we see a reminder to confront…

Something was rotten at Mount Sinai. After forty days of waiting for Moses to reappear, the hard hearts of Israel had led them into sin, denying the God who had brought them out of Egypt and fashioning their own golden calf as an idol. A deity of their own making and their own tastes, who…