Daily Devotions
My Song In The Night (Exodus)
我夜间的歌曲《出埃及记》
Text: Exodus 34: 8-9
MEDITATION
Exodus 34:8-9
8 So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
9 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.”
MEANINGFUL APPLICATION TO LIFE
1. Appropriate humility before God
a. To bow the head before God.
b. In this instance, Moses prostrated himself to the earth.
c. He offered humble worship to God.
i. He acknowledged the greatness of God.
ii. He recognized personal unworthiness before the Lord.
2. Prayer of Moses
a. Appealing the grace of God.
i. If God had indeed promised grace.
ii. He asked that this grace be applied.
b. Appeal that God might be with His people.
i. As He had promised.
ii. Moses was asking for confirmation of God’s promise of grace.
c. Appropriate confession of the sinful state of Israel.
i. Israel was a stiff-necked people.
ii. Iniquity and sin had been committed.
iii. Asking for Pardon from God.
d. A profound request to God.
i. That God would take Israel as His inheritance.
ii. Even though Israel was stubborn, sinful and full of iniquity.
经文:出埃及记 34:8-9
沉思
《出埃及记 34:8-9》
8摩西急忙伏地下拜,9说:“主啊,我若在你眼前蒙恩,求你在我们中间同行,因为这是硬着颈项的百姓。又求你赦免我们的罪孽和罪恶,以我们为你的产业。”