Tues.’s Devo - The Second Ten Commandments

Read Ex. 34:1-7 The Lord told Moses to make some new stone tablets so he could write the laws on them since Moses broke the first ones. It didn’t take long for them to “break” the law! Moses was told to come alone and make sure no person of cattle came near the mountain. There he would proclaim his name. This time we get to here what he calls himself: “The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by NO MEANS clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.” I capitalized “no means” because we tend to have a sloppy attitude about sin. We…I, forget that I am serving a holy God and that my righteousness is like filthy rags to him. We think that we can just ask God to forgive us and its over, but it is not. We ARE forgiven but we will still reap the benefits of our sin. Moses, God’s friend, who God said was the most humble man on the earth, sinned, and it kept him from the promised land. Their sin, and our sin is passed down up to 4 generations. This is so true when you are dealing with generational curses. We can sin against our body and end up with a cancer. This cancer can be passed down to our great, great, grandchildren. I know a man whose grandfather had an affair at 40 and so did his father, and so did he. We can break those curses by speaking to them out loud and breaking their power over us and our posterity. They must be proclaimed out loud because Satan cannot read your mind. It must be a declaration. Lord, like Moses, when we read this it make us want to bow our head to the ground and worship you. Please forgive our sins and the sins of our nation.