Becoming Titus 2 Women

Welcome to the Becoming Titus 2 Women Blog! I am glad you have decided to join me on this journey through unlocking who God created us to be. In today’s blog post we will be looking into the character of God focusing on Exodus 34:5-9. In this section of scripture we see the first declaration of who God is and is declared by Himself to Moses. The verses before this are the account of when Moses met God on Mount Sinai a second time for the commandments to be written on the tablets because Moses broke the first set in anger when he saw the Israelites worshipping the golden calf, Aaron made for them, when he returned from meeting with God the first time to get the commandments. The stage is set Moses is going to cut two more stones out of stone and meet with God once again to get the commandments that the people of Israel are to abide by as God’s people.

Moses took the the tablets up Mount Sinai to once again meet with God. God came down on the mountain in the cloud and stood with Moses there. In this meeting between the two is where God proclaims who He is. In Verse five we see that He proclaims He is LORD. Which means He is above all and before all He is the one in control of all things. This also means that He is the one who is worthy of all praise, worship, glory, and honor. He should be LORD of your life which means the one who is leading you and who you are following in all aspects of your life because He is the beginning and the end and has everything in sight. In verse six He proclaims to be a compassionate and gracious God, who is slow to anger and abounding in faithful love and truth. We see this proven true time and time again throughout the Old and New Testaments. He is compassionate and gracious throughout. When His people come to Him and repent He is quick to forgive and to set them back on the right path, no matter how many times they stumble or fall and come back He is waiting there with open arms. Now this does not mean that we as followers can keep doing whatever we want and just ask for forgiveness and it is all good, that is what is called cheap grace. and If God is LORD of your life then you will strive to be more like Him in your everyday life and your ways fall to the foot of the cross and His way becomes your ways. But when we fall and stumble He will be compassionate and gracious to us slow to anger and abounding in faithful love. This is proven throughout the history of the Israelites journey to the promise land.

In verse seven we see He continues to reveal Himself to His creation. In this verse He share that He maintains this faithful love to a thousand generations. He forgives inequities, rebellion, and sin. He shows He is a just God by saying that He will not leave the guilty unpunished and will bring the consequences of the fathers’ inquitity on the children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generation. This shows that He is a just God because to those who do not choose to turn to Him and repent they will bare the full consequence of those sins and this will ripple down to their children and the children of their children. Because the person who is sinning feels the consequences of those sins but their families will also feel the affects of those sins which produce generational curses that affect generations of that family until someone stands and stops the curse from continuing to pass from generation to generation. Often times by calling out the sin and calling that person to repent and change their ways as well as mirroring to their children why that action is wrong and why we should not continue to do that or let that affect them. As well as replacing the lie that the sin is okay by teaching them truth and showing them what God says about these things. (There is more on this topic in the week long bible study found on the Learn More page on this site) Then in Verse 8 we see Moses’s response to all that God revealed to him. We see that Moses fell to the ground in worship of God and all that He is, which is the proper response any time God reveals Himself or reveals something to His creation because He is worthy of all worship. We also in verse nine that Moses ask the LORD to go with them, even though the people are stiff-necked, forgive them of their iniquity and sin and take them as His possession. Which we know God does this by following the rest of Exodus and Scripture throughout the whole Bible. This also reaffirms all the things that He claimed about Himself in verses five through 7 are true and that He is a God who is all of these things.

There is a week long Bible study that goes along with this blog that breaks down this passage more in depth and breaks down certain things about this passage. This study can be used as an individual study for personal use, in one on one discipleship, or even in a small group study where you do it weekly with each verse as that weeks study. You can find this study under the Learn more Tab.