Wednesday, March 13, 2019*

                                     __Deuteronomy 9:21-22_ 

                     Then I 

                     took this

                     sinful 

                     thing

                     you had

                     made,

                     the calf,    

                     and burned 

                     it with fire

 and crushed it, 

grinding it thor-

oughly, until that 

was reduced  to

dust; and I threw 

the dust of it

into the stream

that runs down

the mountain.

* James Theodore Holly, 1829-1911 American born, our first African-American bishop Who established the church in 🇭🇹 Haiti and became the first Bishop of Haiti and 

the Dominican Republic.

A little background to the verse: after Moses had been up on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights, God had given him the two stone tablets with the law (the 10 commandments)  written on them. He then told Moses that the people had gotten tired of waiting for his return and his brother Aaron had gathered all the jewlrey together and had made it into a golden calf so they had Something to worship. (What’s a guy to do!?) God was pissed. This was Moses reponse after he’d thrown down the tablets and smashed them into smithereens,and had lain prostrate before the Lord, as before, for 40 days and 40 nights...