God Promises Deliverance

As God promises deliverance, He revisits His prior faithfulness. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He also reveals that He is still working and working in new ways. He gives Moses a name to use when speaking about the LORD. And He promises that He will lead the people out of their captivity. His faithfulness continues as He makes a way for His people. 

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REFLECTION

 

A God of Promises

by Kelsey Bacon

 

This passage is a very special passage within the book of Exodus. There is so much good stuff packed in here, so many things for us to knit into our hearts. And the reason it’s so good is that pretty much the whole text is direct words of the Lord, speaking truths to Moses that are still much needed for us today. Here are a few of the truths I see in this passage that speak to me:

 

1. God hears our cries of pain and suffering. “I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant” (v. 5). So often, when we are suffering—whether it be physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual pain—we can feel alone. We feel helpless or hopeless, misunderstood or lost. God reassures us that he is with us in our pain and suffering. He knows and understands it, he hears our cries, and we are not alone.

 

2. God promises freedom and redemption. “I will few you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgement” (v. 6b). Our God is a God of justice, a God who offers us freedom when we are bound, redemption when we are enslaved. We are freed and redeemed by the blood of Christ. True freedom in Jesus breaks every chain that ties us from earthly distractions and sinful patterns. Even if we sometimes still live in those patterns as if we are chained, we are not chained. In Jesus, we are free.

 

3. God keeps his promises. “I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God” (v. 7) This entire passage is full of God’s promises to Moses and to the people of Israel. We have the blessing of the rest of the Bible to know that God kept every single one of those promises. He delivered the people out of Egypt, he brought them into the land he promised them, and he made them his own people and he was their God. We see that God is a God who keeps his promises. He is faithful and true, walking beside his people even when they abandon him. Redeeming them even when they don’t deserve it. And this is exactly what he does to us. He promises us eternal life with him, and we can trust that promise to be kept.

 

UALC’S CAMPAIGN OF PRAYER

 

Thursdays: LIFE Lord God Almighty, we lament the current distress of our nation and we ask for your intervention. We implore you that every precious life would be protected – lives of minorities, lives of the unborn, lives of the hopeless, lives of the mentally ill, lives with deep roots in this land, lives who have recently arrived -- each and every precious life for whom You gave Your precious life.