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Today’s Devotional
Today’s background scripture comes from Exodus 3
Time has no bounds with me. I surprised Moses by announcing My name to him. Those living today are not so surprised because language changed immediately upon My announcement. But in the Hebrew language they had no word for now, the immediate present. It really doesn’t exist. As soon as you think about the present it becomes the past. And if you think about what comes ahead and will become the present soon, you speak of the future. So there really is no present…. Except for Me.
I am not bound by the limits of space and time and exist in the past, present, and future. Time has no meaning with me and so I gave Moses My name as “I AM”. The present. The impossible moment. The one who exists that cannot exist. The one who creates from nothing. The one who knows all. The one who spans time from beginning to end and beyond either end of time itself.
When you meditate on it, you realize there is no now, except for Me. Everything else is past or future. You can do nothing about the past because it is gone. You cannot change the past. It happened and you can only plan and act for the future to make it better. Your hopes and dreams always cue to future events, never past events. They have disappeared and cannot come back for you. You can learn from your past, but you cannot change your past.
You can look toward your future, but you have no promise of tomorrow. No one knows the day or the hour death will knock on his door and call life to an end. You can hope for the future, but there are never promises for tomorrow. So what about the now that really doesn’t exist? What can you do with that? You can only give it to Me because I am the only One and the only thing that truly exists in the present. You can trust Me to hold you in my hands as you slip from future hopes to past events in your journey of life. One day you will face eternity and time will become meaningless for you, too. Until then, trust Me with your present. I AM will always be there when nothing else can.
Today’s Scripture
Today’s Bible reading plans include:
Ready – Exodus 3:1-18
Set – Exodus 3; Luke 22
Go! – Exodus 3-5; Luke 22
Exodus 3:1-18
1Now one day when Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, he guided the flock far away from its usual pastures to the other side of the desert and came to a place known as Horeb, where the mountain of God stood. 2 There, the Special Messenger of the Eternal appeared to Moses in a fiery blaze from within the bush. Moses looked again at the bush as it blazed; but to his amazement, the bush did not burn up in flames.Moses (to himself): 3 Why is this bush not burning up? I need to move a little closer to get a better look at this amazing sight.
4 When the Eternal One saw Moses approach the burning bush to observe it more closely, He called out to him from within the bush.
Eternal One: Moses! Moses!
Moses: I’m right here.
Eternal One: 5 Don’t come any closer. Take off your sandals and stand barefoot on the ground in My presence, for this ground is holy ground. 6 I am the True God, the God of your father, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
A feeling of dread and awe rushed over Moses; he hid his face because he was afraid he might catch a glimpse of the True God.
Eternal One: 7 I have seen how My people in Egypt are being mistreated. I have heard their groaning when the slave drivers torment and harass them; for I know well their suffering. 8 I have come to rescue them from the oppression of the Egyptians, to lead them from that land where they are slaves and to give them a good land—a wide, open space flowing with milk and honey. The land is currently inhabited by Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 9 The plea of Israel’s children has come before Me, and I have observed the cruel treatment they have suffered by Egyptian hands. 10 So go. I’m sending you back to Egypt as My messenger to the Pharaoh. I want you to gather My people—the children of Israel—and bring them out of Egypt.
Moses (to God): 11 Who am I to confront Pharaoh and lead Israel’s children out of Egypt?
Eternal One: 12 Do not fear, Moses. I will be with you every step of the way, and this will be the sign to you that I am the One who has sent you: after you have led them out of Egypt, you will return to this mountain and worship God.
Moses: 13 Let’s say I go to the people of Israel and tell them, “The God of your fathers has sent me to rescue you,” and then they reply, “What is His name?” What should I tell them then?
Eternal One: 14 I AM WHO I AM. This is what you should tell the people of Israel: “I AM has sent me to rescue you.”
15 This is what you are to tell Israel’s people: “The Eternal, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob is the One who has sent me to you.” This is My name forevermore, and this is the name by which all future generations shall remember Me.
16 Round up all the elders in Israel and tell them, “The Eternal, the God of your fathers and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has revealed Himself to me and said, ‘I have been watching over you, and I am deeply troubled by what has been done to you in Egypt. 17 So I will rescue you from the oppression you have suffered in Egypt, and lead you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a rich and productive land flowing with milk and honey.’” 18 They will listen to all that you tell them; you and the elders will then go to visit Egypt’s king and tell the king, “The Eternal, the Hebrews’ God, has appeared to us. We ask that you allow us to travel three days’ distance into the desert to offer sacrifices to the Eternal.”
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