PRIME - Day 3

PRIME Day 3

Read Exodus 5 & 6


Exodus 5-6 finds the Israelite people deep in slavery to the Egyptian nation. How did this happen to God's chosen people?  To understand why, we have to understand their past. 

The Israelites were people of Promise. God promised that they would be His people and that He would care for them and give them a land of their own. They were also people who quickly forgot about God's good plans for them and often took Him for granted.  It seemed the more God blessed them, the more they forgot about Him.

Sound familiar? 

So now in Exodus chapters 5 and 6 we see the Israelites enslaved by the Egyptians.  Still we see God's love and patience at work.  In 6:5 we see that God "heard the groaning" and "remembered the covenant" (or promise) that He made.  So as usual, God begins to work out big things for His people.  The only problem is they don't care.  It's like they've just settled for being miserable.  And even worse, now that God seems to be working on their behalf, they have to work even harder for Pharaoh who is getting angry at the request of God's messengers Moses and Aaron. (5:21)

In chp. 6 we see God gushing His love out as he describes how He wants to "deliver" and "redeem" them. But still, they can't get past the fact that life stinks and it's only getting harder. It's as if they just want everything to settle back down so they can be at a familiar level of "miserable" again. Still we see God promising to deliver them in spite of  their own lack of interest.

Does this sound like us?  Not satisfied with where we are, yet unwilling to let God lead us into our destiny?  Are we afraid we'll miss all the things that bring us down and hollow us out? God's Word paints a clear picture for us of how great He is and how much we need Him.
There's nothing here worth holding on to when we understand just how much He has planned for us. Don't be anchored down by where you are now, tune your ear to Him and listen carefully and sooner or later you'll see, He's been at work all along!


- Brian