Scripture

“I will claim you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God who has freed you from your oppression in Egypt.”

Observation

The Lord tells Moses that not only will Pharaoh let the people of Israel leave Egypt, he will expel them.

The Lord is Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He is the covenant keeping God, and He has heard the cries of His people.

Moses is to tell the people that the Lord is going to redeem them with a powerful arm and acts of judgement. He will bring them into the land He promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The Lord tells Moses to go back to Pharaoh and tell him to let the people go. He gives Moses and Aaron directions for the Israelites and for Pharaoh.

Application

The Lord is about claiming people for his own. This is not about slavery or control. It is a voluntary association.

How wonderful it is to know that the God f all creation is the God who claims me as His own. We are His people, the chosen ones.

He frees us from captivity- not the bondage of a national tyranny, but the bondage of sin.

We were made for more than the life most people accept as normal. We were meant for Freedom- the Freedom to love, the Freedom to live abundantly, the Freedom of living without sin.

Jesus died on the cross as the perfect sacrifice that makes this Freedom possible. All we have to do is to receive His forgiveness.

Prayer

Thank you, Lord, for the knowledge that you are my God and that I belong to you, my Creator and Redeemer. Amen.