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
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