The Finger of God

The finger of God

Exodus 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 32:16 “And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.”

Exodus 32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

Exodus 34:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

2 And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

3 And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

4 And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

For a certainty, Our Creator’s finger marks are in the dust of Eden and in all history right unto this very day. Should He withdraw his finger from the arena of created man, all would surly perish in sin. He took his finger out of Sodom to mark a trail for Abraham. It was from Abraham that His chosen would come. Without the Loving finger of our Holy God, Satan steps in with lies and deceit. Sin becomes the pace of life. Unchecked sin ends in death. So we walk a thin line marked by the finger of God and spelled out within the ten commandments. These our Majesty scratched into tablets of stone with His super natural finger. These we keep sacred if we are of the chosen ones. However there are other commandments of God not recorded upon the covenant stones.

All Scripture is divinely inspired, but the Ten Commandments were divinely inscribed! This testimony of their unique importance is a sobering condemnation of any who ignore them or distort their meaning in any manner to suit their special purposes. God acknowledged to Moses, that the Israelite people had corrupted themselves and was altogether sinful.. Sin is the dark ignorance of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption; “every man is tempted when he is drawn aside of his own lust.” They had turned aside out of the way. Sin is a departing from the way of God’s commandments into some other way. His rescued people soon forgot His miraculous works during their deliverance. He saw what they could not discover, nor is any wickedness of the world hid from him. We could not bear to see the thousandth part of that evil which God sees every day. We do not see clearly now but we will when we are like Him.

But there is recorded a law given of God and recorded in the New Testament, one of even greater personal significance to the Christian: “Ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ . . . written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart” (2 Corinthians 3:3). Not an external standard divinely engraved in stone by the finger of God, but an internal conviction inscribed in the heart by the Spirit of God! “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them” (Hebrews 10:16).

This remarkable writing of God’s law in our hearts and minds has been accomplished because Christ came not “to destroy, but to fulfill” the law given Moses (Matthew 5:17) and “hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13). Now, with the law in our hearts, we have become epistles of God, “known and read of all men” (2 Corinthians 3:2), and it is vital that the writing rule true and clear through our lives if we are to “dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Know God, know peace. Amen BLL 7-22-19