Category: Exodus

In our last devotion, we saw God remind Moses of his nature as a promise-keeping God. In Exodus 7:1-7, God reconfirms to Moses his divine appointment as God’s ambassador and leader of his people. He reminds Moses of his divine mission, warns him of the struggle against Pharaoh to come, and promises again to deliver…

In Exodus 6, we are reminded of how God is trustworthy. God keeps his promises. Responding to the cries of Moses and the Israelites as their burdens were made heavier for daring to dream of freedom, God reminds Moses and the people of his divine commitment to his promises. Exodus 6 shows God announcing his…

Moses’ return to Egypt had gone better than he anticipated, as the Elders and God’s people accepted his message and calling. But Pharaoh had no plans to easily let God’s people go, and in Exodus 5 we see the oppression that the Israelites faced grow. Exodus 5 shows the first confrontation with Pharaoh, the increase…

In Exodus 4:18-31, we see Moses’ faithful response to God’s call in his return to Egypt to rescue God’s people. But before Moses can see God’s promises begin their fulfilment, he must ensure his own life is fit for service as the mediator between God and his people.

Despite the powerful signs God gave Moses to perform, he still shows extreme reluctance to return to Egypt. In Exodus 4:1-17, we see God provide Moses with those signs, and also with a spokesman to speak for him. We see God’s mercy and provision despite Moses’ disobedience to his calling.

Exodus 3 records the Call of Moses by God, as God appears to Moses at Mount Sinai at the Burning Bush. There Moses encounters God’s presence, receives God’s commissioning, and hears God’s challenge to Israel and Egypt.

In Exodus Chapter 2 we see God’s deliverance, of us through Jesus Christ, foreshadowed in the beginning of God’s delivery of his people from slavery. Moses, who will eventually lead God’s people out of Egypt is born. But God must deliver Moses at birth and in adulthood from Pharaoh, showing his hand working as he…

The exploitation and enslavement of people, or opposition to progress and blessing, seems to occur quite often to God’s people. As God blesses his Church, various foes arise to attack it. This was the case for God’s people in Egypt. As they were blessed by God, they fell into oppression by the Egyptians. The rest…

The beginning of the book of Exodus makes it very clear that God’s redemptive plan is continuing, and that Exodus continues that story. It gives us hope to rely on God in troubling times, like these current days, because it reminds us that God is still working out his plan of salvation. In the first…