Daily Devotional from Exodus 19--Verse 5‘Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.I love how the New Testament connects to the Old Testament. The mission that ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 18—Verse 18You’re going to wear yourself out—and the people, too. This job is too heavy a burden for you to handle all by yourself.Moses’ father-in-law, Jethro, was a man of wisdom. He saw how much responsibility Moses had taken upon himself and knew that he wouldn’t be able to sustain that pace for long. His solution? Ask for help.Have you ever felt worn out? Too over...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 17— Verse 7And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the LORD by saying. “Is the LORD among us or not?”The people of Israel had seen time and time again how God had provided for them, but they still questioned whether He was truly with them. They were having trouble trusting that H...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 16--Verse 8And Moses said, “When the Lord gives you in the evening meat to eat and in the morning bread to the full, because the Lord has heard your grumbling that you grumble against him—what are we? Your grumbling is not against us but against the Lord.”Isn’t it easy to grumble? To be unsatisfied with your circumstances is understandable but if we grumble, who are we...  Read More

Daily Devotional Exodus 15--Verses 23-25When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah. And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.This story is a little comical. How silly to see the ver...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 14--Verse 14The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.The Israelites were in the midst of a tricky situation. Their backs were against the Red Sea. In front of them was the entire Egyptian army. They had nowhere to go. Can you imagine the anxiety? Did God deliver them from Egyptian oppression--just to be annihilated by their hands? Yet, God had someth...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 13--Verse 3, 9, 16Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from this place.… And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the Lord has brought yo...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 12--Verse 13The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.The angel of death passed over the homes of the Israelites whose doorposts were marked with the blood of the Passover lamb. This was a sign placed on the doorposts to si...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 11--Verse 2Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.Pharaoh wasn’t going to let the Hebrews go without a fight. In those days when nations warred against each other, they aimed to kill the leaders, destroy the crops, destroy or kill the herds, and finally loot their hom...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 10—Verse 3How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me?Pharaoh was full of pride, so God left him to the natural hardness of his heart. The ancient Egyptians saw Pharaoh as a god, and so he saw himself.It is not hard to imagine that he said within himself, "Who are these Hebrews? They are my slaves. I have built cities with their unpaid labor and I mean to hol...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 9--Verse 35So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses.This little sentence is getting rather repetitive here, isn't it? Moses foretells a plague, God sends the plague, and Pharaoh hardens his heart and refuses to let the people of Israel go. I don't know about you, but I don't want God to ...  Read More

Daily Devotional from Exodus 8–Verse 23I will put a division between my people and your people.We don’t like the sound of that. Division? We would probably prefer to fit in with those around us – do the same things, act the same way, talk the same talk. They’re into this, that, and the other. And, why shouldn’t we be? We breathe the same air, after all. Shouldn’t we think the same thoughts, have t...  Read More