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Today’s Bible Reading: Exodus 14-16

Today’s Devotional: Exodus 14:1-23

Exodus 14:1-3 God gave instruction that He desired the Children of Israel to turn away from a logical rout out of Egypt and to make camp at a place that would appear foolish to Egypt, and the world, and to a place where God has abandoned them or to a place that God didn’t know or understand.

Exodus 14:5-9 Pharaoh would be watching them with a proud heart to see the boundaries of God’s favor for the children of Israel. Ready to move in at any opportunity to show himself above God.

Exodus 14:4 God’s intention was to bring all in Egypt, all of the Children of Israel, and all of the world to know that he is the God who is mighty to save and whose strength and favor towards those who place their trust in Him have no boundaries.

Exodus 14:10-14 God has allowed the second testing of the Children of Israel, the first being in Exodus 5:20-23. Now God desired to show His favor towards the children of Israel and that the cost of their redemption was enough in Egypt, and that nothing could take them from Him.

Exodus 14:15-23 God desires those who trust Him to trust fully and with their whole heart. The cost of their salvation from bondage in Egypt was at such a great price, and that God doesn’t forget the price He has paid to redeem them. Just as Jonah in Jonah 4:10-11, that God values all life the same. The good and bad alike, and God desires all to come to a saving relationship in Him.

God continues to share this desire for the Children of Israel with them in Deuteronomy 20:1-4. That they will enter into a rest with their savior, and where they won’t trust in their own strength to conquer their enemies in the promised land. It’s God who’s gone before them and fights. The Psalmist in Psalm 20 praises God for this attribute of His. Psalm 20:7 praises God that the child of God only has to abide and trust in Him.

God’s heart is that we will not trust in our own ability which fails to find the peace, fulfillment, and victory in our circumstances and inner man. That we won’t trust in what we can do for ourselves, or in what the world puts their trust in for peace and growth in their lives. But God says it’s only found in Him and only He can give the peace, rest, and growth we each desperately desire.