Tues.’s Devo - God is Good

Read Ex. 4:18-23 Moses had his marching orders from the Lord. So he had to get his father-in-law’s blessing before he left. Jethro gave it and God spoke once more to Moses assuring him that he was not walking into a death trap. All the men who had wanted to kill him were now dead. So Moses took his family and set out for Egypt with the rod of God in his hand. Once again God reminded him to do the miracles he had given him but that God would harden the Pharaoh’s heart and he wouldn’t let him go. When he does this you are to tell him that if he refuses to let his firstborn, Israel go, that God will kill his firstborn child. This is the age-old battle. Satan is out to kill, steal, and destroy God’s people and in return God will kill his people. It is not a very much taught principle, but there are evil people on the earth that will never accept Jesus and aren’t made to. God told his people to go in and kill all the people that were inhabiting their land. He didn’t tell them to try to introduce them to Him, he told them to not associate with them and not to marry their women and breed with them. They carry evil in their DNA. God raised up evil kings to punish his people all through the Old Testament. Hitler was raised up by God to wake up his people and draw them back to him. It seems cruel and mean that God would go to such drastic measures to awaken a people, but then he went to gory measures to crucify his son. It is hard for us to fathom that a man’s life is like a blade of grass, here today, gone tomorrow. It is not our life here that needs to be long, it is our purpose that needs to be established. Sometimes, a person’s purpose is done in a few hours and they are taken back to heaven, and others are to live 100 years. It is all in God’s plan and it is beyond our comprehension. Lord, I do know that you are in control, the All-mighty, All-powerful God who created the heavens and the earth and will one day create a new heaven and a new earth.