THURSDAY, JANUARY 10
Exodus 2:23-25
Genesis 15:1, 13-16

“… I am thy shield, and thy
exceeding great reward.”

OUR COVENANTAL GOD

In time, the king of Egypt passed away. But the Hebrew people remained under cruel slavery. It was typical that new Egyptian kings who ascended the throne would release slaves and grant amnesty to prisoners as part of showing their kindness. The Hebrew slaves might have been hopeful that after forty years of heavy bondage, this might be the light at the end of their slavery tunnel. But there was no relief. This situation led them to feel great despair, they increased in sighs, cries, and groans. God heard these cries and groanings under their cruel and long bondage.

When the Bible uses the phrase “God remembered,” it does not mean therefore that God forgets things. He is omniscient. He knows all things, past, present and future, all at the same time. After 430 years, God had not forgotten His covenant with Abraham. God remembered the covenant He made not just with Abraham, but with Isaac, and also with Jacob. It was a very specific covenantal promise. It referred to the promise of blessings to all nations through Abraham’s line. It was about the blessing of the Saviour of mankind that was to come through this line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob’s descendants were about to leave Egypt to form the nation from which the Messiah would come. This is the Covenant of Grace! God had not forgotten His covenantal promise in Genesis 3:15 with Adam. The Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic covenants are all the same Covenant of Grace, revealed through different individuals. Here, “God” is repeatedly used in Exodus 2:23-25 instead of the covenantal name “LORD.” God, “Elohim,” reminds us of His power. His people were crying to be delivered, and He could deliver. What we are reading about is nothing less than God working out His plan and work to bring the Messiah.

THOUGHT: God kept His promises since Genesis and because of that I am saved.
PRAYER: LORD, may I keep my promise to love and serve Thee!