February 5th

February 5th -- Exodus 6:1-13 (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%206:1-13&version=NLT)

Promises of Deliverance

So God tells Moses that Pharoah WILL let them go, once he feels God's wrath, basically.  Or, not only will he LET them go, but he will FORCE them out.
God sends Moses back again to tell the Israelites that God has said He will bring them out of slavery.  When Moses told them, nobody listened because they were discouraged.

God told Moses to go to Pharoah, but Moses protests, saying nobody will listen to him. However, God insists he go, as He had commanded them to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt.

Now, I don't have much to say for this, except that you really gotta' feel kind of bad for poor Moses. He's already tried and nobody listened. God says to try again, and he does, but they kind of just rub the straw-and-brick incident in his face and don't listen. If his own people won't listen, why would Pharaoh? So, well, Moses probably felt he'd been given an impossible task, so you have to feel a little bad for him, as he was probably getting rather frustrated and feeling quite hopeless. So, the next time we feel God is telling us to do something "impossible", we should remember Moses. Though we may get discouraged and protest like he did, look where he got in the end!

That's all for tonight!
God bless!