The Chapter-A-Day thread.

[graciesings]

I had always figured she put the baby in the river in hopes that he'd float to a country that he'd be welcome, but I guess the text doesn't say that.

 

[brinny]

I had always figured she put the baby in the river in hopes that he'd float to a country that he'd be welcome, but I guess the text doesn't say that.

i'm thinkin' similarly.....and that in doing so, she was trusting God with her li'l one.....

 

[bcmom]

Today's chapter is Exodus 3 - Moses and the Burning Bush - Now Moses - Bible Gateway
Happy reading

 

[bcmom]

Welcome Krikey

 

[bcmom]

Today's chapter is Exodus 4 - Signs for Moses - Moses answered, - Bible Gateway
Happy reading.

 

[Jimmy P]

With Moses being slow to speech, what exactly is that? Is it a lisp? Stuttering?

And notice how God admits how people are deaf, hear, see, blind, etc? That it's Him that does it? WHY would God MAKE people blind or deaf?

And also, God said he would harden Pharaoh's heart...WHY? And isn't that going against man's Free Will?

 

[graciesings]

Ok, a question on yesterday's chapter that I didn't get to post. (I was busy studying for the ACT exam.)

God told Moses to take his sandals off, because he was on holy ground. Moses was in the presence of God. So, since Pentecost the Holy Spirit has been everywhere. If God is everywhere, then we're all walking on Holy ground. Maybe we shouldn't wear shoes?

Why should we wear shoes on holy ground?

I have not gotten a satisfactory answer to this question. One pastor told me that Moses' case was "special." But if God is everywhere, we're in His presence. Isn't that "special?" Maybe the best answer I've been given was the teenage boy who said, "Because it's illegal to drive barefoot and we would starve!"

I also know some people who try to divide it into physical and spiritual presence. Thoughts?

 

[graciesings]

With Moses being slow to speech, what exactly is that? Is it a lisp? Stuttering?

And notice how God admits how people are deaf, hear, see, blind, etc? That it's Him that does it? WHY would God MAKE people blind or deaf?

And also, God said he would harden Pharaoh's heart...WHY? And isn't that going against man's Free Will?

I always assumed slow to speech meant that he wasn't a brilliant orator and he knew it.

I think the reason God makes us blind or deaf is because it's the best thing in the long run. Maybe it brings us closer to Him, or it teaches us, or it accomplishes something indirectly. Kind of the "every gray cloud has a silver lining" idea, but the silver lining is much more important in God's plan than the gray cloud.

While I usually hold to a free-will theology, a lot of places in the Old Testament seem to contradict that. God certainly has the power to make a man react a certain way. I don't know how often he does it, various people disagree on that...

God bless you,
Grace

 

[bcmom]

Here's a commentary on Exodus 4. It answered a few questions for me and I hope it does the same for others.
Exodus 4:1 - David Guzik's Commentary on the Bible - Commentaries - StudyLight.org

 

[GuusVA]

Wonderfull piece of scripture, I've always loved it cause moses gets to deal with his doubt and I got my share as well. But I know that tpgether woth God I can easily tackle the doubt.

 

[Jimmy P]

Gracie, I wonder if it was 'holy ground' because God was right there, actually speaking? Maybe that made the area even MORE special possibly...

 

[GuusVA]

Would be a possible explanation. I'm starting to be curious as wel.

 

[bcmom]

I always assumed slow to speech meant that he wasn't a brilliant orator and he knew it.

I think the reason God makes us blind or deaf is because it's the best thing in the long run. Maybe it brings us closer to Him, or it teaches us, or it accomplishes something indirectly. Kind of the "every gray cloud has a silver lining" idea, but the silver lining is much more important in God's plan than the gray cloud.

While I usually hold to a free-will theology, a lot of places in the Old Testament seem to contradict that. God certainly has the power to make a man react a certain way. I don't know how often he does it, various people disagree on that...

God bless you,
Grace

I'm not sure if this answers your question or not....


"iii. Take your sandals off your feet: Removing the sandals showed an appropriate humility, because the poorest and most needy have no shoes, and servants usually went barefoot. It also recognized the immediate presence of God. In many cultures, you take off your shoes when you come into someone’s house, and now Moses was in God’s “house,” a place of His immediate presence."
David Guzik
Why would we then not go barefoot to church? I apologize if that comes across as flippit remark, it's not intended to be. IMO, for two reasons: God cares more about what is in our hearts not what is on our bodies and the only one who could fulfil the OT was Christ.

 

[bcmom]

Today's chapter is Exodus 5 NIV - Bricks Without Straw - Afterward Moses - Bible Gateway
Happy reading
God Bless

 

[bcmom]

Today's chapter is Exodus 5 NIV - Bricks Without Straw - Afterward Moses - Bible Gateway
Happy reading
God Bless

 

[Krikey]

I thought maybe the holy ground meant it had something to do with the location of the garden of Eden

 

[Jimmy P]

The Pharoah, wow...just like a lot of hard nosed bosses nowadays...

 

[brinny]

talk about misery.....God must've heard the actual groaning of souls in all of this....

 

[Krikey]

Why did the Pharaoh hate lazy people so much when most of his civilians were apparently so?

 

[graciesings]

I think the difference is between lazy slaves and lazy citizens.

I also think he was trying to reduce them to just machines, somehow trying to get them to forget what they wanted and live in the present (their work.)

The last few verses of this chapter got me thinking. Somehow, Moses forgot that God does things in His own timing. That's interesting to me because I've done the same thing. I'll pray for something and wonder why God didn't give it to me, only to get it later. To me, seeing things happen on God's schedule is one of the interesting things about the Bible