Exodus 30-32 The Finger of God

by Diana Durrill

"And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God." - Exodus 31:18

This is a magnificent visual, don't you think?  Can you just see the finger of God reaching down to hand write the law for the people of Israel?  My imagination tells me that God has very nice handwriting and the tablets were very beautifully scripted.  However, the message inscribed was difficult - for no man has ever been able to keep the whole law.  


We see in the New Testament that God does some more writing but this time His handiwork is even more beautiful because He didn't write on tablets of stone and the message was not the law.  Rather, He wrote a message of grace on the tablets of our hearts -- your heart and my heart!  He has taken His word and engraved it through the work of the Holy Spirit.  The effect of this is a personal transformation from the inside out!  A natural by-product of what has been written on our hearts, inscribed by God, is that we are (or should be) a living testimony of what the power of Jesus Christ can do in a life!  

"And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts."

2 Corinthians 3:3