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.
