Many times, the Lord God shows you and me the next step for this day alone… and we can trust Him to lead us in paths of righteousness as we follow Him. Other times, the Lord reveals what we are to do for the coming months and even years in broad brush strokes. He does […]
Is your life a roller-coaster? Moving faster than is comfortable – with the plunges into the depths of darkness and then up to where you have some light… over and over again. The long, slow ascent up a steep incline… sometimes life is a struggle and the mountains are high. And there can be fear, […]
God’s story is on-going. As you read and study the Bible, as you continue from Genesis to Exodus, the story of God unfolds. To be continued is the theme of God from book to book. In fact, when you begin in Genesis and read through the Old Testament and continue into the New Testament to […]
First – God identified Himself to Moses (NASB) Exodus 3:14 “God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM’; and He said, ‘Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” Second – God instructed Moses (NASB) Exodus 3:16 “Go and gather the elders of Israel together and […]
When you introduce yourself to another, do you refer to someone you both know? That is what Moses would be doing when he went to the slaves in Egypt. Moses would identify who sent him to the Hebrew slaves… In fact, Moses asked the living God how he would get the confidence of those men. […]
The LORD told Moses he was being sent to deliver the sons of Israel from slavery in Egypt. Moses asked the Lord an honest question. Have you ever asked the Lord an honest question about His name? Moses did. An honest question (NASB) Exodus 3:13 “Then Moses said to God, ‘Behold, I am going to […]
Moses was a man. And he was afraid. He doubted that he was the man God could use to bring approximately two million slaves out of Egypt. Moses was honest with God. Are you? (NASB) Exodus 3:11 “But Moses said to God, ‘Who am I, that I should go to pharaoh, and that I should […]
God saw the problem (NASB) Exodus 3:9 “Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.” The God of the Bible hears the cries of His people. He sees their problem. He did this for the sons of […]
What is this? Shouldn’t great promises and great plenty mean no problems? So many times people want life to go their way, with plenty of everything and no problems. For the followers of Christ Jesus, we can expect problems. Problems, when dealt with in a godly way, will glorify God and strengthen our faith in […]
The wilderness The LORD God talked with Moses, out in the wilderness, among the plants and the rocks and the herds he was shepherding. Moses was in the middle of ‘nowhere.’ Do you feel like you are in the middle of ‘nowhere?’ Meanwhile in Egypt The Hebrews in Egypt were slaves, and their taskmasters were […]