I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Exodus 33-35.

Today’s passage begins with the conclusion to the story of the gold calf.  The writer tells us that God told Moses that the people should get going, that He would send an angel before them to drive out the inhabitants of the Promised Land, but He would not be going with them.  In response to this message, the Israelites stopped wearing jewelry and fine clothes.  However, the Israelites did not move on from Mt Sinai for more than another forty days because the passage tells us that Moses spent forty days at the top of Mt Sinai after this.

When Moses came down from Mt Sinai the second time, his face glowed from being in the presence of God, but Moses was unaware of it.  Everyone else saw how being in God’s presence had changed Moses.  When we spend time communing with God it changes us in ways which others will see long before we do.