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Grace Giver

  “And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”” Exodus‬ ‭34:6-7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ Depending on every man’s choice of relationship with God, God is both our grace Giver and the people’s guilt Guest. Moses’s second approach to Mount Sinai to receive the 10 commandments is a perfect example of God’s nature of mercy, grace, and goodness. Notwithstanding, the same approach revealed the righteousness, truth and justice in God’s relationship with many succeeding generations of a guilty heart. Without placing serious concerns on some arguable misgivings about fairness, it is important to understand that man is not a sinner because of his sin. Every man sins because he i...

Gracious Glory

“Then he said, “If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”...And whenever the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, then Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with Him.” ‭‭Exodus‬ ‭34:9, 35‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/exo.34.9,35.nkjv   Without any doubt, there appears to be nothing more profound in mount Sinai than the merciful management of the gracious glory of God among the wilful wickedness of the wayward.  The management of the disturbance between the camp of Aaron and the camp of God took Moses another 40 day-and-night transfiguration experience at mount Sinai. And if God must also go with any man in our world, fully loaded with increasing frivolity and fearless wickedness, there can be no alternative to a daily dose of the gracious glory...