JUL 10

Deuteronomy 9:9-11
Memorise 2 Corinthians 3:3
“two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God”

Yesterday we saw how the 10 Commandments were unique in that they were given to the people directly from the mouth of God. But that is not all. After God had declared it audibly to them, He personally prepared “two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God” (Exodus 31:18), upon which contained the Ten Commandments. None of the other laws that God gave were physically given to Man in this manner. For those, Moses himself had to scribe them and then give it to the people. But for this absolute moral law of God, it was personally engraved upon stone by God, and it was the one thing which Moses carried down with him from the top of Mount Sinai. Furthermore, it was emphasized that “the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables” (Exodus 32:16).

Why did God do so? Again, it was to emphasize the grave importance and significance of this particular segment of the law. This is what we know as the moral law, which is the unchangeable law of God based on His character. It was permanently engraved upon stone, written by the very hand of God, and entrusted to man. They were later instructed to place these tables of stone into the Ark of Covenant which was situated within the holy of holies in the tabernacle, as a permanent memorial to God’s covenantal expectations of them.

For us, these same commandments must be the rule of law whereby we live our lives. Knowing the great importance that God has placed on them, we ought to also regard them highly, and try our best to live by them. Just as God had written them upon tables of stone, they ought also to be written ‘in fleshy tables of the heart’ (2 Corinthians 3:3), that our thoughts, words, actions all be conformed to His will. We must endeavour to know them, understand them well, and apply them in all areas of our lives.

Dear teen, is God’s law written in the tables of your heart? Do you have this innate yearning and desire to obey His Word?

Thought: God wants to deliver the Ten Commandments right into the very tables of my heart.
Prayer: O Lord, may You write Your law in my heart, and help me to be an obedient child of Thine.