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Daily Devotion: Exodus 31:18

Exodus 31:18     "And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." 

Moses had been up on Mount Sinai for forty days and nights. During this time, God gave Moses His commandments and His judgements for the children of Israel to live by. God reiterated His love for, and faithfulness to, His chosen people whom He had delivered with a mighty hand. He spoke all these things to Moses for Moses to tell Israel.

God also put into Moses hands tangible proof of His communion with His servant Moses. He gave Him two stone tables upon which the laws of God were written. These were not just some old pieces of rock that Moses had picked up off the mountain. These tables (tablets) were a finished work. The word translated as tables means to glisten or have a polished appearance. 

Nothing about this was the work of Moses. It was God who fashioned the tables of testimony (witness). It was God who wrote the testimony with His own hand. God put the tables of testimony into Moses’ hands to take back to the children of Israel. 

Dear ones, to this day, there is nothing about the testimony of God that is the work of men’s hands. God wrote on the tables of stone with His finger, showing that only He can write His words and will in the hard and stony heart of man. Only God can perform a finished work in that heart and write His testimony there (Hebrews 8:10). If you are blessed to bear His true testimony, then you have indeed been touched by the finger of God and your life will never be the same.

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