Exod 4:24-26 In today’s post I want to address some uncomfortable questions that we might have about God’s attack on Moses (see Part I here). Why did God want to put Moses to death when He has just sent him…

Exod 4:24-26 As we continue the story of Moses, we come to one of the most obscure incidents in Scripture. Although translations often identify the characters in order to make sense of the events, the original leaves much of it…

Exod 4:21-23 Despite the difficulty in understanding the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart (see my post here), we should not allow it to take over our understanding of the passage. God is speaking to Moses on the eve of his return…

Exod 4:13-20 Despite the Lord’s repeated reassurances, the bottom line is that Moses feels too inadequate to take on the job God called him to. One can almost hear the panic in his voice as he says, ‘Please, Lord, send…

Exod 4:10-12 Only days after I decided to give up my job as an English language teacher, I went to a friend’s party where a casual conversation with a new acquaintance led to my applying for a PA job at…

Exod 4:1-9 At one time I was listening to the conversation of some Christian friends from a charismatic background, who were bemoaning the fact that the initial glow of God’s presence seemed to have faded from their experience: they no…

Exod 3:13-22 God answers Moses’s first objection about his mission to Pharaoh with the reassurance that ‘I will be with you’ (Exod 3:12). Now he comes with a second concern asking God for a name to take to Israel (v.13).…

Exod 3:7-12 As a young adult, I remember a Billy Graham rally in Budapest in the early 1990s, where one of our youth group members came to accept Jesus’s forgiveness of her sins. To start with, she was jubilant, but…

Exod 3:1-7 We pick up again Moses’s tracks as he pastures his flock towards the west side of the wilderness (the Hebrew calls it the back end of the desert). According to Jewish tradition, forty years have passed since Moses…

Exod 2:23-25 Most of us have wondered about God’s timing at one point or another. Sometimes it seems perfect and everything falls into place. At other times, we are left confused when tragedy hits unexpectedly or we struggle in a…