When Moses and Aaron appear before Pharaoh in Exodus 5 to give him the message from God to let the Israelites go into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to Him, Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not…

Moses was having a difficult time believing God knew what He was doing. “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?” Exodus 4:1. “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your…

Exodus 3 tells the remarkable encounter Moses had with God and the burning bush. In reading Exodus I’m trying to imagine what it was like for Moses. He wouldn’t remember his mother saving his life when he was only 3 months old, but he knew what it was to be brought up in the home…

For any of us who have sons, brothers, fathers, how can we begin to understand an edict that any male babies had to be thrown into the Nile? How can we begin to understand that kind of cruelty? That comes from a heart that does not know love. We’ve all read the story in Exodus…

How many people have been enslaved in the history of mankind? Slavery is an ugly word and an even uglier reality for those enslaved. It’s also an ugly reality of a persons heart who enslaves. So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor and they built Pithom and Ramses as…

With Jacob’s passing in Genesis 50, not only Joseph and his brothers and their families, but the Egyptians also mourned for 70 days. So Jacob’s sons did as he had commanded them: They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre, which Abraham…

In Genesis 49 Jacob’s sons are gathered around him. An end of an era. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Jacob has watched his sons throughout their lives as only a father can. Our Father knows each of us as only He can. He knows our thoughts, our hearts, all of us. I wonder what God would…

In Genesis 48 Jacob is ill and Joseph brings his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, with him to be with Jacob. Jacob claimed Manasseh and Ephraim as his own. “Now then, your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here will be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be…

In reading Genesis 47 I can’t help but think about the power that Pharaoh had. The famine continued and got so severe that the people sold their livestock to Joseph to gain food. When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord the fact…

Jacob and his adult children and their children and all they had were now embarking on a journey to Egypt during a famine in the land that would last five more years. So much had happened, so many surprises. Joseph was alive and sending for him. And God spoke to Israel in a vision at…