Day 6 and 7

I find this passage so exciting that I head 15 chapters at one go! It was awesome. I had witnessed the power of The Lord, Our Father, Our God, the God of Abraham, the God of Issac, the God of Jacob. It was witnessed first hand in these passages. God's power is so powerful. God's glory is seen so powerfully among all the Israelite. So powerfully witnessed in the passages in Exodus 1 - 14. He rescued Israel from the hands of Pharaoh who treated the Israelite very badly as slaves, whom presence in Egypt blessed Egypt. Moses was chosen from the dust to lead the Israelite out of Egypt. I really like how God really planned the whole thing so meticulously. He planned in a way such that the Egyptians would be taught a lesson and not only that, also through that the Israelite would have something to remember God for when God brought good times to them. So that they may remember the Lord in good times and in bad. In bad times, they would definitely remember Him because they needed God's help. Are we like the Israelite? Only cry out to God when we need Him? But forget Him when we are good?? God also impressed upon me that what every God decreed through Moses was to really let the Israelite commemorate God Almighty and not forget God for God is going to bring them out of suffering and to the land of Milk and Honey. All the Passover and ceremonies is really to commemorate God! Not to be the religious actions seen in the new testament which the Pharisee practice. It was never NEVER meant to be this. But we went the wrong way.

I really like God's description of Moses.
In Exodus 7:1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

Hahaha... So cool for God to mention that you are like God to someone else. That shows the amount of power God had entrusted to Moses and how much He trusted Moses. Do we desire to be like this? Or do we fear?

Then they went to the desert...

This is where God is setting the groundwork for a nation. Culture, law everything necessary. How weeks should be run everything! It is really amazing that these things are actually what we enjoy now, the structure given by God. How awesome is that? Modern law is derived from English law which is based on the bible. Everything!

Admist nation building, an enemy appears, Israel was a new and young nation, how can it have wnough strength to fight? Fear not for God is with them:

¹¹ As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. ¹² When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. ¹³ So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.

I find it so true that when God is with you, everything will and can be won in His power. This paragraph declares that. 


I learnt a great deal from here:
¹⁷ Moses’ father-in-law replied, “What you are doing is not good. ¹⁸ You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. ¹⁹ Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their disputes to him. ²⁰ Teach them his decrees and instructions, and show them the way they are to live and how they are to behave. ²¹ But select capable men from all the people—men who fear God, trustworthy men who hate dishonest gain—and appoint them as officials over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens. ²² Have them serve as judges for the people at all times, but have them bring every difficult case to you; the simple cases they can decide themselves. That will make your load lighter, because they will share it with you. ²³ If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied.”

God was like saying yea, serving is good but distribute the work load for God's yoke is light not heavy. Distribute it out! If not you will be worn out doing God's work if it is too much for you and it is NOT INTENDED for you to take it all. So! Go!