Article March 30, 1968 ISSUE

"Be ready in the morning"

RUTH T. KNIGHT

When God told Moses to come up to Mount Sinai with two stone tables to be inscribed with the Ten Commandments, to replace those which Moses had broken in a rage, He told him to "be ready in the morning." Ex. 34:2; Perhaps Moses had not been sufficiently prepared spiritually the first time he received God's directives, or he would haven seen the powerlessness of the idol worship that so enraged him when he came down from the mount.

The Bible states that when Moses went up to Mount Sinai the second time "the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. ... And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped." vv. 5–8; This turning to God first must have humbled Moses' thought and given him an improved understanding of the nature of God and a greater certainty of divine guidance for his appointed task.

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