i know you don't need me to tell you what happened in the first 20 chapters of exodus (and won't need me to do the same for chaps 21-40)...because you have been reading and studying this book for yourselves. however, sitting down to complete a blog of overview on this scripture last night and then reading over it was really a helpful and thought-moving experience. just the enormous faithfulness...the treasure of God's faithfulness in and amongst His people shouts out His character. i love Him so much. He is faithful. He was faithful. He moved people (moses, aaron, their mother, jochebed...the pharoah's daughter...jethro and zipporah...) and circumstance and pharoah and water and...and frogs, gnats, flies...He hid the sun for three days...and He moved the red sea into two walls of water!...falling on the israelites' enemies. He made bitter water sweet. He made water come out of a rock. He made flakes of food fall from the sky...and quail...and then, His very presence came into their midst....
let me just...again...type out the words from chapter 19 that are His words...about what He had done. verses 3b and 4 (God was speaking directly to moses): "thus you shall say to the house of jacob and tell the sons of israel: 'you yourselves have seen what I did to the egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself.'" (italics mine)....
*so so beautiful.*
i can see the eagle in my imagination. the gracefulness of the rescue...and the safety and security of being brought to Him. i don't in anyway want to mess with the picture in your mind of this...but having watched that scene numerous times at the end of lord of the rings when gandolf came on the eagle to rescue frodo and sam...i can't help but think of it and their ethereal awakening in rivendell. transplanted from the volcanic rock and lava of mordor to the most beautiful, heavenly, safe place...provides an amazing visual of rescue. they had no escape before the eagles came. they felt they knew this was the end...there was no conceivable way for them to have escaped death on their own. and they were rescued...on eagles' wings....
what i need as i read the bible is to understand who God is...and also...who He is in my life. He has rescued me soooo many times. i have seen Him move circumstances...money...people. He has brought answers when i didn't have them. i am soooo thankful this morning for His faithfulness to the israelites. and i am soooo thankful for His faithfulness to me as well...for the way He heard their cry (chap 2:23b-25) and rescued them from 400 years of slavery. and for His interest in my way...oh...and this is true for every one of His children...He is faithful to rescue...and it is always as beautiful as the flight on the wings of eagles.
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