September 27 - Exodus 20:1-2

I know it might seem like there are just a few words in our verses today, but how profound those words are.  The fact that God spoke to Moses at all is a miracle in itself.  He reminded Moses who He was and what He had done for the Israelites.  My first thought it that Moses could look around and see they weren’t in Egypt, but it was more than that.  It was a reminder that what Moses might at times think he himself did, was completely God’s doing.  Moses was the mouth moving but the words and the influence was God and God alone.  He also reminds Moses here of the circumstances the Israelites had been under in Egypt.  They had been in the house of slavery.  Everywhere they went in Egypt they were under Pharaoh’s thumb.  They couldn’t sleep, eat, travel…anything without Pharaoh’s permission and all they had, as far as food and clothing wasn’t theirs, but provided by Pharaoh.  Of course, it wasn’t much, but God is reminding Moses here of all that had taken place as part of the process of getting them out of Egypt.  The plagues, the Passover, the Egyptians giving them goods to take with them.  None of it came about naturally.  It was all God.