Exodus 14–18: When Security Vanishes
What do you do when your security vanishes and enemies surround you? The Israelites faced this problem, but they had forgotten that God always provides and protects His people.
What do you do when your security vanishes and enemies surround you? The Israelites faced this problem, but they had forgotten that God always provides and protects His people.
Our God is Who He claims to be. The final plague demonstrates His power over Pharaoh and gives Him all of the glory.
Who is going to sit on the throne? Pharaoh grapples for authority by refusing to release the Israelites, but ultimately it is God who sovereignly hardens Pharaoh’s heart that He might get glory.
Pharaoh is relentless in his rejection of God. Despite three more devastating plagues, Pharaoh does not “yet fear the Lord God.”
Despite three more plagues Pharaoh continues to harden his heart.
Do not be like Pharaoh and let your heart become hardened by the things of God.
God is faithful. Sometimes it takes us coming to the end of our rope to realize that we need to trust and lean into to the One Who does not fail.
Sometimes things don’t go exactly as we imagine them going. However, God is faithful. We must trust and hope in Him, looking to Him alone for the provision of the Good.
Joseph’s reconciliation with his brothers begins, brought about by circumstances of the famine in Egypt.
The story of Joseph can encourage us as believers to remember that we are children of the One who holds the power over nations and people; He can use any circumstances for our good and His glory.
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