Exodus 3

This is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible. Here we have God telling Moses how He is going to save the people of Israel. First important thing to note:

“…for I know their sorrows” (Exodus 3:7b)

Our God is personal. He knows our sorrows. How is it that God knows our sorrows? God would suffer on the cross. He is able to relate to the people of Israel through the sacrifice He would later give. God is so powerful; He is able to relate to us through the sacrifice of His Son. Remember breaking your foot, arm, wrist, etc. Now when other people hurt themselves, you are able to relate to their pain. However it is never quite the same because they are currently hurting and yours was just a past hurt. You cannot remember every little thing. Your ability to say I relate may even come off as annoying. Now picture a God outside time, and as you suffer He is able to look back on that time He suffered and feel it in the same way you are. I am not saying that Jesus has die over and over again on the cross, but I do believe God has a divine memory. Our God can relate to us perfectly. This is what makes Him the perfect deliverer.

Exodus 3:14

“And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And He said, So you shall say to the sons of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.”

Our God works in present tense. Although our God is beyond time, He puts Himself within time to serve us in the now. Picture it if our God always related Himself as the future. We would have a God who was never with us. He would always be beyond us. Picture it if God said He was in the past. How then could a God work out the now if He is way back there? Our God is the great “I AM.” Everything that is, is working and moving and having its being through Him. Without “I AM” nothing is. Everything falls apart without God! God is the perfect deliverer because he relates to us, and works with us in the now. Read John 1 to learn about God working in everything!

Exodus 3:19

“And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.”

Our God remembers His suffering for us. Our God is “I AM,” the perfect worker of all things. Our God can also see the future because He is also Alpha and Omega. Now people argue, “Did God force Pharaoh’s heart to be hardened? Was Pharaoh stuck in having to fight with God? It does say that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart.” Let us consider this verse. God says He is sure that Pharaoh will not let Israel go easy. If God is looking into the future, He is looking at a Pharaoh who is not going to submit. Therefore when it says that God is hardening Pharaoh’s heart, the choice had been made by Pharaoh; God was setting that man in his ways. If you choose to turn your back on God then God may very well harden your heart that you may be driven to that place of repentance. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to look up. Our God relates with us. Our God works with us in the now. And finally, our God considers our hearts, and does what it takes to save us (Though some keep on running). What a deliverer.