Exodus 34: Moses The Glow Worm

Moses comes down the mountain glowing and it’s not a metaphor. Exodus 34 gives us one of the Bible’s most unforgettable images of what happens when a human being spends time in the presence of a holy God, and it also gives us a hopeful reminder when we’ve blown it: the Lord is still the God of second chances. We pick up after Israel’s idol worship, and God calls Moses back to Mount Sinai to chisel new stone tablets, rewriting what was broken and rebuilding what seemed lost. Along the w...