Devotion:
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Read Exodus 6:1-8.
Exodus 6:1-8 continues to tell us the story of who the only true God is. This passage reflects some of the words from our devotional yesterday from Exodus 3. Exodus 3:7 tells us, “God sees their afflictions, hears their cry under the Egyptian taskmasters, knows their sufferings, and comes down to deliver them.”
Exodus 6:5 adds, “I have also heard the groaning of the Israelites whom the Egyptians are holding as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.”
The only true God sees, hears, knows and comes to deliver.” Any other “god” would not be able to see, hear, know or deliver. The difference in the only true God of Abraham, Issac, Jacob and Moses and any other “god” is that God is the Living God who creates and initiates and keeps the covenant with humanity and is ever-present to redeem and bless.
For the Hebrew people, God’s deliverance of them from the bondage of their slavery in Egypt was as vital to their abiding and covenantal faith in the only true God as the resurrection of Christ is for us.
Personal Worship Option:
We can place our complete trust in our Living God who sees, hears, knows and comes to deliver. Jesus said the first and greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. Matthew 22:37-38. God is faithful in the covenant with us. Are we faithful in our covenant unto God?
The Exodus event proved to both the Israelites and the Egyptians who the only true God is. When we put our trust in any other gods, they (and we) will be defeated.
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