let your light shine

Good morning sisters and brothers,
In his anger, Moses broke the tablets God carved out of stone, so God tells him to carve new tablets and to come back up the mountain. Moses spends time there and God rewrites the ten commandments and explains the covenant to Moses. Then Moses comes back down the mountain to share the covenant with the people. Being so close to God leaves a mark on Moses and his face begins to glow. That reminds the people that what Moses tells them doesn't just come from Moses, but from God. When we spent time in prayer with God it doesn't leave an outward mark, but we will notice that spending more time with God slowly changes us in other ways. Try and find out how God's light can shine in you.

God bless,
Sam

Exodus 34:27-35

27The Lord said to Moses: Write these words; in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel. 28He was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. 29Moses came down from Mount Sinai.



As he came down from the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant in his hand, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. 30When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face was shining, and they were afraid to come near him. 31But Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke with them. 32Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him on Mount Sinai.



33When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil on his face; 34but whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with him, he would take the veil off, until he came out; and when he came out, and told the Israelites what he had been commanded, 35the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of his face was shining; and Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with him.