The Gospel for Every Day
Each day, we slow down to align our hearts with God’s Rhythms of Grace.
This series, we turn our ear to God’s Call to Go
This week, we meditate on the theme of Slow to Anger throughout Scripture.
Today’s Scripture
How can a perfect God work through rebellious people? Following one of the most significant failures of faithfulness, the making of a Golden Calf to worship, Moses is given a revelation of who God is that holds the answer.
Reading slowly, let God convict you by his truth and overwhelm you by his grace in Christ.
Exodus 34:1-10
The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. 2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain. 3 No one shall come up with you, and let no one be seen throughout all the mountain. Let no flocks or herds graze opposite that mountain.” 4 So Moses cut two tablets of stone like the first. And he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand two tablets of stone. 5 The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. 6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.” 8 And Moses quickly bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. 9 And he said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, please let the Lord go in the midst of us, for it is a stiff-necked people, and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
10 And he said, “Behold, I am making a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been created in all the earth or in any nation. And all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.
Gospel Meditation
Prayerfully meditate on the Scripture you just read using the rhythm Look Up, Look In, Look Out:
Look Up: What does this reveal about God?
Look In: What does this reveal about me?
Look Out: Where is Christ leading me today?
Closing Prayer
From Jonah 3 and Exodus 34
Father,
You did not clear the guilty by turning a blind eye to the evil in Nineveh, but warned them through your reluctant prophet, “Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
You were slow to anger when you gave them forty days to change
You overflowed with steadfast love when you saw their repentance, and relented from bringing disaster
Only you keep steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin
This new day, I turn from evil and call out mightily to you, trusting that you are still slow to anger, and that you still abound in steadfast love.
In the name of Jesus,
Amen
