He thought he could help his own people. That backfired. Now here he was in the middle of nowhere, a foreigner with a family to look after but no future to cheer him. All of that about his people and helping them was a lifetime ago. He has settled for the life of a shepherd. […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 4 – Moses’ Mountain MeetingBorn from the Levite tribe. Initially nurtured by your Mum but then handed over to be trained in Egyptian royalty. You’re already a man out of place. You’re don’t belong to the people you’re surrounded by. Then when you go to your own people, your effort to support their cause is dismissed with a retort […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 3 – Man Out Of PlaceThere was something about the way he came to be that marked him out as special from the start. That could be the premise for someone to think that the person in question had greatness in him. Yet the way this beginning is written makes it clear that it was all about God’s protection and […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 2 – Drawn Out BeginningsWhat was written before was written so that someone like me could read it and learn. Learn about the nature of God. Learn about the nature of humanity. Learn and shape my life better by what I learn from what was written before. Written by people who experienced aspects of God’s nature and elements of […]
Read More A Moses Profile: 1 – Opening ThoughtsSo. People get excited by a vision. In a certain period of time we will achieve this. After a particular portion of time we will be here. Follow me for a future where this and that and the other will be realised. Nothing wrong with that to a degree. I was reading the biblical narrative […]
Read More Looking To Him For How Far To LookCan you imagine this? You’re a great leader. You’re at the forefront of a movement that has seen you defy all the odds. The greatest power of the day came to nothing because of the meek and humble approach with which you challenged them for the sake of justice. Now a people that were oppressed […]
Read More See It Then Live ItA people enslaved, a man who has experienced the palace and life as an outsider is chosen. God, against the power of Pharaoh, proves to be the ultimate power in ten distinctive ways. A people released, a man who knows God deeply leads them across the Red Sea and leads them through wilderness challenges. Despite […]
Read More Exodus Extracts – A ReviewFor the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys. (Exodus 40:38 ESV) It’s fascinating reading about what in essence took place in the space of a year, from the time the children […]
Read More Exodus Extracts 40 – Presence For The JourneyAccording to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the people of Israel had done all the work. And Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it; as the LORD had commanded, so had they done it. Then Moses blessed them. (Exodus 39:43, 44 ESV) Going through the process to its completion […]
Read More Exodus Extracts 39 – Mission AccomplishedThese are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were recorded at the commandment of Moses, the responsibility of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. (Exodus 38:21 ESV) One of the compelling reasons behind the book of Exodus is that it is not just […]
Read More Exodus Extracts 38 – It’s Recorded
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