Today = Hebrews 9:23-10:18 + Exodus 9-10 + Proverbs 3
I realize I haven't commented much on the Old Testament passages... probably because, frankly, sometimes they are hard to relate to. But I stopped when I read these words in Exodus:
"For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." (Exodus 9:15-16)
This comes in the midst of God sending the plagues against Pharaoh and Egypt. I think sometimes I read the story and I wonder why God doesn't just wipe them out, or why he's pestering the people of Egypt who may have nothing to do with keeping the Israelites as slaves. But none of that really matters because the point is that God displays his ridiculously incredible power in each of the plagues and the signs that he sends. Again, I am humbled to see his glory set so drastically against my .....lameness. Ha, that's a horrible way to say it, but it's true. God's glory is displayed everywhere - in the snowstorms and the wind and the power, and the soft hush of the quiet afterwards. It's crazy stuff. We serve a crazy, amazing, powerful God.
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