Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant — the Ten Commandments. Ex. 34:28 I am perplexed at the thought that Moses spent forty days and forty nights on the mountain without food and without […]
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Day 5: In the Fullness of Time
Forty years later an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. Acts 7:30 I must confess that when I read the words, “Come no closer!”—my spirit quivers. While I believe with all that is in me that we “we may approach God with freedom and […]
Day 4: A Time Of Cleansing
At the age of forty Moses fled from Egypt into the wilderness. Acts 7:23 He must have, on occasion, gazed over the rolling dunes towards Egypt and wondered what might have been. Probably the first few years were the hardest for this well educated sheepherder from the comfortable household of a king. He married and […]