Exodus 34:35

REFLECTIONS

What a precious scripture is that, and what a full explanation doth it afford, to this whole Chapter: The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Lord I would pray, write thy laws upon my heart, and while, by the sweet influences of thy Holy Spirit, I am made both able and willing to run the way of thy commandments, now thou hast set my heart at liberty, may my soul be constantly strengthened and established in that precious assurance, that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to me, and to everyone that believeth.

Blessed God! may the perusal of thy servant's privilege and enjoyment in the holy mount of communion with thee, make my soul long after such sweet and reviving manifestations of thy glory, in covenant mercies, that I may know what it is to enjoy fellowship with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. Oh! let the continual actings of faith, and the exercises of grace, be going forth by the Spirit's work, in my heart, on each of the persons of the Godhead. And may the frequent communications of Jesus' love have this blessed effect on my heart, that, as the face of Moses shone, so the conversation of my lips may denote with whom I have been most in communion. Grant, blessed God, this may be my mercy, that from beholding with open face as in a glass the glory of the Lord, I may be changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.