the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 1 of 5
Exodus 3:7-22
During the long years of servitude in the "iron furnace" of Egypt (Deuteronomy 4:20), God had not remained indifferent to the sufferings of His people. He remembered His promises to Abraham (Genesis 15:13-14), to Isaac (Genesis 26:3) and to Jacob (Genesis 46:4). The moment has come when He is going to make Himself known to His own through Moses, as the God of their fathers and at the same time as the God who thinks of them in love in order to deliver them. Is it not equally the case that He can be known by all those who groan under the load of their sins? The lost and miserable condition of His creatures has not left God unmoved, just as He saw the afflictions of Israel and heard their cries and their sighs. But He is not satisfied only to take cognizance of "their sorrows" (v. 7). He adds: "I am come down to deliver them".
God has come down to us in Jesus; it is through Him that we are delivered. Did He stop there? No, He further wished to make us His people, to establish us in a relationship with Himself, and to enrich us (v. 22). God reveals His Name to Moses. He is "I Am", the One who fills eternity with His presence. He exists, He is, all the rest follows from that. (Isaiah 43:11; ; Isaiah 43:13; Isaiah 43:25).
