Category: Daily Devotion

  And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me regularly. Exodus 25:30 – Where we left off Moses in the last chapter was him going up Mount Sinai by himself to hear from the Lord. He was up there forty days and nights, and in that space God laid out…

  Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” 8 And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you…

  If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall bring it back to him. 5 If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him. Exodus 23:4-5 – While unlikely for us to…

  Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death. Exodus 22:19 – Certainly an awkward verse to select and write about for today’s devotion, but it speaks clearly about the state of our world without God’s moral law being our foundation. Bestiality was found throughout many of the cultures within the ancient world.…

  When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing. Exodus 21:2 – It can be odd for us to read passages like this in scripture and see the Lord giving commands about slavery. Is God accepting of slavery? Is commands like this…

  Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Exodus 20:8 – Want to hear something crazy? As believers in Christ, under the new covenant, we are not commanded to keep the sabbath. I know, that so counters what we’ve always been told, so let’s break this down. The commands we see in our chapter…

  On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. Exodus 19:16-17 – By…

  If you do this, God will direct you, you will be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace. Exodus 18:23 – We get a glimpse into the normal day-to-day life of the Israelites within our chapter. Each day Moses would take on the role of judging all…

  But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his…

  Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. Exodus 16:4 – While many of the miracles we’ve read about in Exodus were…