Fri.’s Devo - God is Jehovah

Read Ex. 6:1-13 At the end of yesterday’s reading Moses went to God after being rejected by Pharaoh and his own people and asked him why he would sent him to such evil people. Moses thought he was sent to be the deliverer, not the curse. All he had gotten his people was harder bondage. But, God wasn’t discouraged at all. Today he tells Moses that now he is going to move. I bet Moses thought it was about time. Then God went on to tell Moses who he was. He was the god who had appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob and to them his name was God Almighty. But to Moses he is appearing as JEHOVAH. This name means "the unchanging, eternal, self- existent God," the "I am that I am," a covenant- keeping God. Later this word was considered so holy that no one would say it, only the High Priest on the Day of Atonement. Then he goes on to tell him his over-all plan: 1. give them the land of Canaan 2. bring them out of Egyptian bondage 3. make them his people and be their God Moses took this information to the children of Israel, but they couldn’t hear him because they were being so oppressed. Then the Lord told Moses to go back to the Pharaoh and tell him to let Israel go out of his land. Moses asked God how Pharaoh is suppose to hear him if his own people didn’t. Then God spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave a charge to them, the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. This unchanging God didn’t have a plan B. His plan was going to happen. Lord, thank you for your unchanging nature. You don’t give up on us or your purpose on the earth…and that is to dwell in a people and work through them to bring about your kingdom on this earth. Open our eyes to see this when we are surrounded by oppression that wants to distract us from you.