Exodus 2:11-3:22, Matthew 17:10-27, Psalm 22:1-18, Proverbs 5:7-14
Today is the 26th day of January, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is fantastic to be here with you today. I mean, every day, that’s true of every day. It’s wonderful to be around the Global Campfire together as we take the next step forward. We have been reading from the English Standard Version this week, which is what will continue to do. Yesterday, we finished our first book in the Bible which was the book of Genesis and then we began the book of Exodus. And so, we kind of talked about the territory that we were moving into and the fact that as we turn into Exodus, we’re moving forward a couple of centuries. All of the children of Israel, the original children of Israel, it’s a couple hundred years ago so they’ve all passed away. But they had children along the way and they have become as numerous as the sand on the seashore and now the Egyptians are afraid of them and have enslaved them. And all of those details are to lead us to be introduced to the next major leader or figure that we’ll be following with for quite a while, his name is Moses. Pharaoh had ordered that all male Hebrew children be thrown into the Nile River to drown. Moses was put in the Nile River in a basket. Pharaoh’s daughter found him, had mercy on him, hired his mother to nurse and raise him up and then when he was old enough, deliver him to her to be her son. The son of Pharaoh’s daughter. And so that’s how Moses, a Hebrew, is educated like of the Royal class and yet he is a Hebrew, which causes some dissonance in Moses heart and that’s where we pick up the story. Exodus chapter 2 verse 11 through 3 verse 22 today.
Commentary:
Okay, they’re several things in the Scripture reading today that we could talk about and some of them we will talk about as we continue forward. For example, in the gospel of Matthew today Jesus says something pretty profound “for truly I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain move from here to there and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you”. So, obviously faith is something that we will talk about in many, many different ways as we move through the entirety of the Scriptures, but let’s just acknowledge that if what Jesus is saying is true, then faith, even a little bit is astoundingly powerful. I mean, a mustard seed is a tiny little seed, tiny, tiny little seed in the palm of your hand, it just doesn’t work in the same way that brute force works. Like, we can understand like I’m just going to go get this thing done. Whether we succeed or fail, we’re just gonna go take matters into our own hands, step in and give all of our strength at something. We can even pray thinking like, I’m praying in faith, I’m getting loud, I’m commanding the promises, I’m calling down heaven. This is gonna happen. But the reality of how this works is our faith is not in this thing being changed, our faith is in God. God in his sovereignty can do anything and our faith is in God.
Then we move into the book of Psalms for a quick second and there are words that begin the 22nd Psalm that should be familiar “my God my God why have you forsaken me.” If you’re familiar with Jesus story at all than you know that he’s quoting from this Psalm when he’s dying on the cross, which is a story that we will be encountering for the first time not too long from now.
Then we flip back into the book of Exodus and God introduces Himself to Moses and He introduces Himself by saying I am, who I am, which is profound in it of itself. It’s like to describe God using human terms is so woefully short of the mark. God often uses attributes about Himself to describe Himself in a way that human beings can understand and so often those attributes are what we know and so we kind of flesh out this picture of who God is, when the truth is we are created beings, we don’t know or have the capacity to fully comprehend what we’re talking about when we are talking about the most High God. So, Moses is like who am I supposed to say sent me, there gonna ask me, who sent me and God’s says, tell them I am that I am, I am sent you. And so, let’s just remember that a small amount of faith in the I am, who I am is one of the most tremendous forces available. It may take all of forever to begin to comprehend the beauty and magnitude and authority and sovereignty and power of this great I am but we are underway. Let’s not put ceilings on who God is, for we have much to learn. Thankfully, according to the Scriptures, I am, the God of all things wants to be known. So, we could spend this year and we could spend the rest of our lives trying to figure this out and put it on the spreadsheet and get into formulas about what God will and will not do and who he will and will not do it with. All we can realize that as we read the Scriptures, God will do what God will do. He is, who He is, there is no other, there is no one higher, there is no one more powerful, He bows to no one, He has created this all. So rather than trying to figure out His movements and who He’s going to do things with maybe we could just focus our efforts and our hearts affection upon knowing Him and allowing the rest to just fade and recede into the background.
Prayer:
And so, Father truly, truly at the heart of it all, we come here every day, certainly to learn from the Scriptures and to be taught and counseled on how to live and how to be in this world and often we’re majoring on the minor’s that You, the most indescribable, most powerful, most holy, most beautiful knows who we are is shockingly humbling and we repent and apologize for our arrogance. For the way that we try to portray You. Forgive us for the damage that we’ve done to ourselves and to others in the pursuit of controlling what You do and do not do as if we have a say. You are the most high, we humble ourselves before You, the Great, I am. And we, worship You in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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Hello, Daily Audio Bible family, this is Richard the taxi driver. Who is today, a dump truck driver to pick up the snow. Because here in Connecticut we have snow and it reminds us how every day you know, we have to pick up some stuff in our life, getting a checkpoint. And the story of Joseph, oh my Gosh, how inspiring to my life because this guy, he doesn’t complain about anything. He gets human trafficking by his brothers then he, he gets going to prison because he wants to do the right thing, you never hear him complain or anything. Me, I’m complaining all the time, I complain my wife this, my wife that so much to learn you know. And even Jesus, all the way to the cross, you know, what did He do, on the cross he said Lord, Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing. So, Lord, my prayer for us today, for me and myself is to give us this same, you know, the same understanding, patient and love you have towards our fellow man. And to forgive them because they don’t know what they’re doing. So, on that happy note, hallelujah Lord, bless my beautiful community with Your showers of blessings Lord and surround them with your arms of love. And, I love you everybody, have a great and blessed day in Jesus mighty name, Amen.
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