Mon Nov 2

Listen up, little ones

Especially for the littles in your household.

Listen for the names Lord and God.

Reading

Exodus 34:1-9—The LORD is a compassionate and gracious God.

Optional Reading

Luke 7:11-17

Keys for kids

Also for the littles. Young households might choose, after Keys for Kids, to go directly to praise and prayer.

Moses wanted to see God’s glory.
God revealed to Moses His character.
God is compassionate and gracious.

Questions

(Some read the ?s before the notes/ ask them after.)

What does Moses record about seeing God’s glory?
What does Moses record about God’s character?
How does God forgive sinful people?

Catechism

WSC #90

How is the Word to be read and heard, that it may become effectual to salvation?

That the Word may become effectual to salvation, we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, and prayer; receive it with faith and love, lay it up in our hearts, and practice it in our lives.

(Proverbs 8:34; 1 Peter 2:1-2; Psalms 119:18; Hebrews 4:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:10; Psalms 119:11; Luke 8:15; James 1:25)

Children's Catechism 114-115

What is the third petition?

“Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”

What do we pray for in the third petition?

That men on earth may serve God as the angels do in heaven.

Notes

(See Saturday for authors.)

Moses had asked to see God’s glory (Ex 33:18). Now God invites him back up to the mountain. Moses goes up the mountain with replacement stone tablets. There God meets him and reveals Himself to him. What will Moses see? Even protected from God’s full glory, what a magnificent image Moses would be sure to describe to us, right?

Actually, he tells us nothing about what God looks like. Instead, God tells Him and us what He is like – which is more important by far. And what is God like?

God is a promise-making and promise-keeping God. Twice for emphasis He is identified as LORD. (All caps representing God’s covenant name by which he first revealed Himself to Moses.) (Ex 3:14-15) And what is the glory of our covenant God? That He is compassionate and gracious, forgiving, longsuffering, and true.

God’s glory is His compassionate grace. That the Almighty God, maker of Heaven and Earth, would make a way for sinful people to be forgiven and bless them with His presence is a glorious wonder of our glorious God. Yet God’s just punishment on all who reject His Savior is also to His glory. But none of us will want to see that.

Swedish Method questions

See the Sunday notes for meaning of the symbols.

Praise

Psalm 79b, 22c

Prayer

Rejoice in the glory of God’s compassionate grace.
Pray for a specific application from yesterday’s sermons.
Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.