Friday, September 17, 2010
Exodus 32:30-35
The next day Moses said to the people, “You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.” So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Alas, this people has sinned a great sin. They have made for themselves gods of gold. But now, if you will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.” But the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, I will blot out of my book. But now go, lead the people to the place about which I have spoken to you; behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them.”
Then the Lord sent a plague on the people, because they made the calf, the one that Aaron made. (ESV)
by Peggy Chroniger
Do your brothers and sisters in church annoy you when they don’t act like Christians? Are you willing to lay your spiritual life on the line for your Christian brother and sister when they don’t act the way they should as believers? If you are not, how much do you really love them? Moses sets for us an example and Jesus gives us a greater one “in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Let’s pray today that we will love our brothers and sisters that much.
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Daily Bible Meditations are taken from The Helping Hand,a Sabbath School student quarterly for youth and adults. Copyright © 2010, Seventh Day Baptist Board of Christian Education, Inc.
Scripture quotations marked "ESV" are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.
