Devotional categories: Never forsaken

The Mosaic Law

“You must not turn away justice for your poor people in their lawsuits. Keep your distance from a false charge–do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.”  Exodus 23:6–7   Into the Text Exodus 21–24 are some of the chapters that list out

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The Ten Commandments

“”I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.”  Exodus 20:2–3   Into the Text The Ten Commandments are more than simply rules to follow. They show us how to have right

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Reverential Holiness

“‘And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine, and you will be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that

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Share the Load

Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good! You will surely wear out, both you and these people who are with you, for this is too heavy a burden for you; you are not able to do it by yourself.” Exodus 18:17–18   Into the Text

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Rule of Life

Whenever Moses would raise his hands, then Israel prevailed, but whenever he would rest his hands, then Amalek prevailed. When the hands of Moses became heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on

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God Provides Food

Then the LORD said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they walk in my law or not? On the sixth day they will prepare

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A Song of Praise

The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.  Exodus 15:2   Into the Text After being rescued from the Egyptians and miraculously walking through the Red Sea,

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The Miracle at the Red Sea

But the Israelites walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. So the LORD saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore

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Acts of Remembrance

“You are to tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead, so that the law of the LORD may be

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The Flight from Egypt

The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted, and so they plundered Egypt. Exodus 12:36   Into the Text God always keeps His promises. This truth is something we can easily say that we know but quickly forget in

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