Category: Daily Devotion

  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…

  Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water. Exodus 15:27 – Moses and the Israelites had just experienced the miracle of a lifetime, the escape from the Egyptians by the parting of the Red Sea. Their captures were gone and…

  Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. Exodus 14:30 – Try to place yourself in the spot of one of the Israelites this day. All you’ve known your entire life is harsh slavery. You’ve seen firsthand the ten plagues God brought…

“When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and your fathers, and shall give it to you, you shall set apart to the Lord all that first opens the womb. All the firstborn of your animals that are males shall be the Lord’s.” Exodus‬ ‭13‬:‭11‬-‭12‬ ‭- What…