"So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was."
This (above) is a profound verse. God had just given the Ten Com-
mandments, and now the mountain was smoking and the thunder was cracking. The people did not want to approach God--since they knew themselves to be out of harmony with His law. Instead, they insisted that Moses go to God for them. And Moses, as a type of Christ, did so.
So it is with the church today. On our own, we dare not come near to God, since He is perfectly holy. But IN Jesus, we may boldly approach Him (like Moses did), since our sins are covered in Christ's blood, and His (Jesus') righteousness clothes us with His innocence. For this most marvelous privilege, let Christ's church praise God wholeheartedly.
[Puritan quote of the day: "The saints [of old] resisted their enemies to death, by resisting their own corruptions first." --Richard Sibbes, in, "The Soul's Conflict with Itself"]
