Today God does something He has never done before: He preaches His own name. The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

That sentence becomes the Old Testament's favorite quotation, prayed back by prophets and psalmists for a thousand years. Learn it today. You will need it on file.

Exodus 34 and Matthew 27 are the same sentence in two tenses. Compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, forgiving wickedness, yet not leaving the guilty unpunished, Israel heard it as a paradox: how can God be both? Barabbas watched it resolve: the guilty walked free because the punishment landed, in full, on the Innocent standing in his place.

You are in the Barabbas position of that trade. So take God's name personally today, every clause of it, and let it do what it did to Moses: enough unhurried time in that Presence, and your face starts to carry the light out with you. People can tell where you have been.