What would you feel like if you had an appointment with God at 9 A.M. tomorrow? Would you be able to eat for the rest of the day? How much sleep do you think you’d get tonight? You’ve got an appointment with God at 9 A.M. in the morning. He has given you instructions as to where to meet him and what to bring with you.

That was the case with Moses. “Come up in the morning to Mount Sinai,” God said, “and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.”

Moses was to bring with tables of stones like the ones on which God had written his testaments. You remember that when Moses came down from the mountain and discovered the peoples’ idolatry in building and worshiping the Golden calf, his anger “burned hot” – that’s the way the Bible puts it, his anger “burned hot” and he threw the p…