January 27 - a bridegroom of blood

I’m sorry for being a couple of days behind on the Bible blog. Here are Tuesday’s Bible readings:

A bridgegroom of blood: Exodus 4:1-5:21

The least is the greatest: Matthew 18:1-20

The kingship: Psalm 22:19-31

Your wife is your well: Proverbs 5:15-21

Poor Moses. He didn’t want this job. Yet his wife fusses at him for having to circumcise one of their sons (Exodus 4: 24-26). It’s not like Moses digs circumcision or wanted to be struck with illness. :)
Later, the Hebrew supervisors of the Hebrew slaves fussed at Moses for making Pharaoh mad (Exodus 5:21). It’s not like Moses didn’t try to talk God out of the whole bit of sending him to Egypt to free the Hebrew slaves. :)

I’m sure at this point Moses was ready to give up. We see in the next chapter that the Lord spoke to Moses to tell him that He would show Himself in glorious fashion to the Hebrews & the Egyptians. But at this point, I can relate to Moses. We’ve all had times when it seems like we’ve got our back against the wall, and the wall being God’s will.

Yet, in the end God is always shown to be the Supreme Being. What we see with our senses is just a temporary illusion when it seems to contradict the eternal truths.

Jesus’ teaching in Matthew backs this up. He said that the greatest in Heaven must contain the heart of a child. Moses, as described both in yesterday’s post & in part of today’s Genesis text, was a lot humbler than we usually think of him. Yet God used him in wondrous ways!

God will use you too if you learn to see yourself as small & the Lord as mightier than anything else.


About today’s Proverbs, Solomon continued his teaching about staying away from adultery. Verses 15-18’s references to a well, springs, & streams are allegories to fertility & offspring. Reading it in the amplified would probably be better: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%205:15-21;&version=45;. When we think God doesn’t see us fooling around, we’re wrong (verse 21). There’s plenty to keep us happy by keeping it all in marriage (verse 19).