I am currently reading Exodus, and it is so relieving to see how powerful God delivered Israel from Egypt, especially when I see the world around me where God does not seem to be that powerful anymore .. Among uncertainties in life, all toil and hard labour, all hardships and problems, God is the only source of anchor in life ... Sometimes it is hard to always cling to Him, but I just have to remember that He is the one that holds my hand!
Israel was in a difficult situation .. for hundreds of years they lived under the yoke of slavery in Egypt ... The promise of deliverance from God through Moses did not make life easier, but worse .. Pharaoh made life even more miserable after Moses and Aaron talked to him .. Worse, it seemed like the miracles that Moses did can be copied by the dark arts of Egypt .. Can you imagine? The dark forces can change staff into snake, convert river into blood .. that is pretty powerful stuffs !!
It must be pretty hard for Israel to trust God at that time ... But those things in exodus were written for us as a lesson, so we learn how to trust God and encourage others to do so ...
In the end, God is God and He triumphed over those magicians and achieve His purpose .. and He is the only one that we can trust ... Eventually the miracles that God performed cannot be copied by Egyptians magicians and through that all nations know that there is a God in Israel .. !! Amin!
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