(Communion Meditation November 2025)
Exo 32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Exo 32:15-19 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp. And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear. And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
While Moses, the man of God, was receiving the Law of God on top of Mount Sinai, the rest of Israel was at the base of mount Sinai, committing a heinous act of rebellious idolatry. Before the Law had been delivered – written on 2 tablets of stone – the stony hearts of the Israelites had already betrayed them. When Moses witnessed this, he cast the stones away, causing them to break. The cracked and broken tablets upon which God Himself had written the Law symbolized that the Law had been violated.
Since that day, the Law never could make a righteous man – not because there was anything wrong with the Law, but because there was something very wrong with man. Unrighteous man neither wants to nor is capable of keeping the righteous law of God, and so in every generation the Law of God was cast to the ground to be broken again and again.
When God sent His only begotten Son to dwell among us, the Law of God was written again, but this time it was wrapped in the living tissue of a man. This time the righteousness of God would be a living, speaking, acting righteousness that our eyes could see, our ears could hear, and our handles could handle. Nevertheless, unrighteous mankind rejected God’s righteousness yet again, but instead of casting it to the ground they raised it up and nailed it to a tree, where He died.
When the Law written on stones was broken, it testified to man’s guilt and condemnation. But when the body of the Living Law was broken, His blood poured out forgiveness. The Law on tablets of Stone could only bring about death, but the death of God’s righteous Son gives Life. Because man is always breaking the Law, Christ came to be broken. “Take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you” are the words He speaks. So leave your sin, your transgressions, and your evil behind and come receive righteousness that comes from the gracious heart of God.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; And having an high priest over the house of God; Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
(Heb 10:19-22)
Nathan Writes 