Day 031- The Bible Recap
Day 031 | Exodus 4-6
Today's reading was Exodus 4-6. Here's what stood out to me:
Moses started off with a fair question...why would they believe him or even listen to his voice? God responded by giving Moses the ability to perform signs (staff/snake, leprous/healed, water/blood). Moses doubted still by bringing up his inability to communicate well. God basically told him I made your mouth; I will help you speak. Moses finally pleaded, "Please send someone else." This angered God. 4:1-14 I must remind myself often what the Lord calls me to do, He will also equip me to do. There's never a promise things will be easy...instead that He will walk through it with us!
God told Moses to show Pharaoh the signs He had given him, but He said He would harden his heart. For the longest time I had wrestled with this verse in the past. But I know a few things...Pharaoh was already treating God's people with hatred therefore revealing his true heart and intent, God created the heart and can look right into it (we can't), and God used/uses people for His will to come about and is doing that very thing with Pharaoh!
Moses and Aaron met with the people, and they said they all believed.
But when Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh to ask for his people to have time off to go to sacrifice to their Lord, Pharaoh retaliated by making their work even harder. The Israelites questioned Moses and Aaron saying how are we better off now? 5:1-21
God reminded Moses of what He had already done for the generations before him...nothing is too big for God to accomplish! He told Moses, "I will take you to be My people and I will be your God." He also mentioned He would be LORD (relational God) to them. He will walk with them, defend and protect them. 6:2-8
Moses repeated all the Lord told him to the Israelites, but they didn't believe because their spirits were broken from slavery. 6:9 But God didn't abandon them because of their unbelief...instead He gave a charge to Moses and Aaron that His people will most definitely leave Egypt! Even when we have doubts ourselves, God is gracious to remind us of how He has provided in the past!
~Ann Mays
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