While God was telling Moses all these Commandments, on the top of the mountain, there were thunderings and lightnings, and the voice of a trumpet exceeding loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and even the mountain trembled at the Presence of the Holy God.
And this was the First Commandment—
"Thou shalt have no other gods before ME!"
Nothing else in the world nearer and dearer to us than God!
I heard the other day of a terribly injured soldier, who sent this message to one who had written to sympathize in his great deprivation: "Don't pity me; the sacrifice has been worth it; for I have found God!"
Oh! What it is to learn that!
Now we come to the Second Commandment—"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image."
Moses cast down the two Tablets which God had written.