The terms compassionate and gracious don’t seem fitting to a God who sent 10 plagues on Egypt, opened up the ground to swallow umpteen thousand disobedient Israelites and just plain got angry sometimes, even calls himself Jealous.
Still, the Lord called Himself compassionate, gracious, slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness and truth, who forgives iniquity, [...]

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Friends with God that Moses was, he still could not look God in the face. When Moses asked to see God’s glory, God offered to pass by and show Moses His back while Moses was protected in the cleft of a rock AND by God’s hand.
What a wonderful picture of trust and compassion, for God [...]

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What would a friend of God ask for? What would this friend want so that he could continue to remain in favor with God?
Moses asked for four things.
1. Let me know God’s ways.
2. Let me know God.
3. Consider the nation that is God’s people
4. To see God’s glory
What would you ask God for to remain [...]

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Moses and the Lord were friends. The Lord spoke to Moses just as a man speaks to his friend says Ex33.11.
After that, "When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
If I had a friend whom God spoke to as a [...]

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I want to know more about Moses. “The Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend.”
I can talk to God as a friend, but I don’t hear Him that way.
Perhaps the more I talk to Him, the better I will be able to hear.
I should try [...]

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Sometimes you have to pick which side you are going to be on. No waffling, no pussy footing, no playing the ‘whatever’ card. Sometimes you have to take a stand.
When Moses came down off the mountain of Sinai and found the people had been committing adultery/idolatry with a golden calf, he insisted they take a [...]

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“I threw it (the gold) into the fire and out came this calf.”
That was the best excuse Aaron could come up with for forming the golden calf while Moses was up on the mountain. It just happened that way.
My dad used to say “Excuses are like rear ends. Everyone has one and they all stink.” [...]

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Joseph could interpret.
When Pharaoh (the bad guy) couldn’t find anyone to interpret his dreams, Joseph came forward.
“It is not in me, God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”
How come Pharaoh could get a favorable answer from God? Especially, if in the end Pharaoh was a bad guy?
It’s not fair. It’s not fair unless we trust [...]

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It’s a well known happening in the Bible. Moses went up on Mt. Sinai to spend 40 days with God while the 10 Commandments and the law were being written in stone.
While gone, the people turned towards worshiping the golden calf. God threatened maybe even intended to destroy the people and start over but Moses [...]

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“… in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all I have commanded…”
Unfulfilled genius?
I was taught that even Carl Lewis had to train.
It’s one thing to have skill, talent, genius within you, it’s another to work hard to bring it out.
It’s all there is to use our [...]

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Sin offering. Burnt offering. Wave offering. Heave offering. Peace offering.
Offerings for this, offerings for that.
If we are to reconcile ourselves to God, a whole lot of time needs to be spent at the altar to make things right.
It hardly seems doable. It isn’t doable.
There needed to be a better way. And, in the end [...]

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I am not an animal activist. I am not an activist of any kind for that matter.
However, Ex 23 says “You are not to boil a kid in the milk of its mother.”
I may be wrong but it seems to me that there ought to be some sympathy extended even to the animal kingdom.
There is [...]

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